~ Standard Hardcover
~ New Release - 2023
Moving seamlessly through time, Held opens upon the battlefields of the first world war to show how the past erupts insistently into the present . . .
A breathtaking and mysterious novel, Held is a narrative that spans four generations with connections and consequences igniting and reigniting as the century unfolds offering radiant moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence as sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.
"A beguiling association of memories, projections, and haunted instances through which the very notion of our mortality, of our resilience and desires, is interrogated in passages as impactful as they can be hypnotic, Michaels' mastery of word and situations is understated but insistent." -- Giller Prize 2024 Jury Citation