'A book that reads like music, both battle hymn and love song for our world' Violet Kupersmith, author of Build Your House Around My Body

'A rare, remarkable book to be kept and reread - for its beauty of language, its gentle wisdom and its steady, unflagging hope' Minneapolis Star Tribune

'Enger casts this adventure as an Orphean quest, but once Rainy takes on a young sidekick who's also on the lam, the enterprise feels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reconceived by Cormac McCarthy' Ron Charles, Washington Post

'As readable as anything [Enger] has written, [I Cheerfully Refuse] refreshingly concerns itself less with the miraculous than with what is right before our eyes, even when we want to look away' Wall Street Journal

'An unusual and meaningful surprise awaits readers of Enger's latest...[his] retelling of Orpheus (who went to the underworld to rescue his wife) contains the authentic hope of a born optimist' Los Angeles Times

'The transcendent latest from Enger [...]is at once a dystopian love story, a nautical adventure and a meditation on loss, kindness and natural beauty . . . This captivating narrative brims with hope' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'There's both a playfulness and a seriousness of purpose to the latest from the Minnesota novelist, a spirit of whimsy that keeps hope flickering even in times of darkest despair' Kirkus Reviews