A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick!! 紐約時報編輯群特選小說！
作者GINNAH HOWARD曾兩次被提名 《 手推車文學獎》（Pushcart Prize），且被認可為卡明頓藝術學院為所藤斯托的常駐作家。
與蘇 米勒，埃裏斯 麥克德莫特作品中反映的家庭黑暗面戲劇風格相似。 “The strength of this story pulls Howards’ readers along, unable to turn away from a fierce mother and son who are determined to negotiate the future.”---New York Times Book Review (「《暗夜導航》的強大力量將Howard 的讀者拉進一個無能為力的境界－無力去改變一對激烈的母親和兒子，決心向未來談判，卻不願對過去的每一分秒妥協。」---紐約時報)
“Harrowing . . . unflinching.”---Kirkus Reviews
Publisher holds UK rights, Rights sold to Blanvalet/Germany and Oceanida/Greece
版權已售 UK. Germany /Greece
Review
"Night Navigation is unerring in its grasp of the multiple deceptions of the addictive relationship, the self-deceptions above all. You can’t help getting furious at its characters. And you can’t help loving them."
"A gritty, unblinking, compassionate portrait of addiction – the deceptions, the exhausting repetitions, and most of all the agonizing dilemmas of parental love, which may or may not have the power to save but can never stop trying.”---Joan Wickersham, author of The Suicide Index
"Kafka wrote that a book must be the axe to the frozen sea inside us. Ginnah Howard’s astonishing debut novel, Night Navigation, is just such an axe: sharp and fierce, enlivening and enlightening. Howard’s gripping tale of a mother who can’t stop saving the very son who can’t be saved lays bare the marrow of familial love--its messy desperation and its stubborn, enduring beauty."---Maud Casey, author of Genealogy and The Shape of Things To Come
"Ginnah Howard’s raw, vivid account of addiction and codependency unflinchingly explores the vast darkness of guilt and despair. The stark, urgent voices of mother and son ache with anger and love, fear and hope. Howard’s ability to dive so deep into the human psyche is a testament to her grace and compassion as a writer. Night Navigation will leave you breathless--a haunting, riveting debut."---Kiara Brinkman, author of Up High in the Trees
"In this bold debut, Ginnah Howard navigates the precarious lives of her people with searing compassion and devastating honesty, opening our hearts to the dark wonder of shared grief and the flickering hope of forgiveness."---Melanie Rae Thon, author of Sweet Hearts
"Night Navigation is unerring in its grasp of the multiple deceptions of the addictive relationship, the self-deceptions above all. You can’t help getting furious at its characters. And you can’t help loving them." ---Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Book of Calamities
"I fully enjoyed and admired this sparely written, unspairing portrait of a deeply troubled American family. Ginnah Howard is a wonderful new writer." ---Hilma Wolitzer, author of Summer Reading
"This dark debut is a wrenching account of a mother and son moving together and apart in an increasingly tragic family drama. In alternating memoirs, Del and Mark deal with heroin addiction and mental illness (his) and fears (hers) of a fate marked by junkies, pushers, halfway houses and recovery programs. But it’s the persistent ghosts of a father and another son, and the guilt over their deaths that hold Del and Mark in a vise grip. Between grief and addiction, there’s no easy forgiveness for these sad survivors. Through one bitter, lonely year, Mark and Del lose and find one another repeatedly, and they come to realize that loving someone means letting them love themselves. Howard is a graceful, spare and fluid writer, and her somber and bleak novel has the power to lift and inspire."---Publishers Weekly