Jacob Jump

"If Ernest Hemingway and Carson McCullers co-wrote a novel about a trip down the Savannah River that novel would be titled Jacob Jump. With dialogue as sharp and clear as water rolling over rocks and with familiar landscapes portrayed as starkly and as hauntingly as an alien world, Eric Morris shows that a trip down a river can be a trip through time to places where memory and regret lurk in closed-off spaces that are more perilous and unsettling than the deepest of waters on the blackest of nights."—Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy

"In his bold first novel Jacob Jump, Eric Morris takes full possession of the Savannah River. . . . [He] is a writer to be closely watched and his novel is as finely crafted as a Swiss timepiece. It has a perfection of design that is satisfying and a scope that is as ambitious as it is finely wrought."—Pat Conroy, from the foreword

"Eric Morris's Jacob Jump is half hallucinatory prose poem, half mythic journey, and, with every passing mile-marker, a work of gathering and genuine beauty. The journey down the Savannah River, rendered with such knowing precision, will surely bring to mind James Dickey's Deliverance, but the psychological nuances of this voyage put me more in mind of the work of the great Josephine Humphries. Jacob Jump is a work of art that also just happens to be an absolutely riveting read. It's a novel I won't soon forget."—Mark Powell, author of The Sheltering

"After reading Jacob Jump my first question was: how did this first-time novelist get so good? Jacob Jump is a remarkable book, and Eric Morris is a major talent. His storytelling is first-rate. His characters are dimensional and believable. And his ability to put you in a scene is extraordinary."—Peter Leonard, best-selling author of Voices of the Dead