Then We Came to the End

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Then We Came to the End | Techniques/Literary Precedents

Making the top-ten lists of Time, Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, and several other publications in 2007, Ferris’ novel became a runaway bestseller and critical favorite. One reason for this, according to Seattle Times reviewer Michael Upchurch (April 1, 2007), is that Ferris knows how to bring his characters to life with well-executed strokes or, as Upchurch put it, “a few artful phrases.”

Eric Weinberger, writing for the Spectator (March 31, 2007), praised Ferris’ first novel for the narrator’s use of the pronoun “we”...

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