Lost Between the Edges

I didn't expect this book to take me where it did, and when I came back to my everyday world it didn't feel the same any more. Eldon Garnet employs a deadpan narrative that heightens one's awareness of the possibility for evil on your own street. It's a terrific book.

Douglas Coupland

Eldon Garnet's Lost Between the Edges is a novel surprising not just for the prose, but also for the passion... Garnet uses imaginary and real characters, such as Zundel, and creates a realistic, sometimes frightening, sometimes pathetic, image of him. The conversations with white supremacists and ARA members are so accurate that they may have been dictated... This book is important not just for its style and intelligence, but because these pernicious forces at the edge of civilization still remain.

Sunday Book Reivew

Expectedly, this documentary support, in the end, supports nothing and this ambiguity, or frustration, is Garnet's ideal... This realization, that Garnet's fictional Zundel is the real and truly repulsive Zundel (and might X, who destroys Zundel's headquarters, actually be a version of the young Garnet, the incendiary author himself?), is stirring, and establishes the author of Lost Between the Edges as a master commentator on the contemporary religion of relativism... Garnet's fictionalized 'evidence' of Zundel's hatred exploits the exploiters, and does so with unforgiving intelligence.

The Jewish News

Garnet's novel rings true as a traumatic and conflicted portrait of modern bigotry and extremism.

Publisher's Weekly

There is something a bit Kafkaesque about Lost... both Joseph K. and X are anonymous allegorical characters, who represent ideas rather than people.

The Globe and Mail

What appalling, barely-literate tripe.

Action Report