“Occasionally a book burns into your occipital lobe unable to leave you. How do you stop longing for something you can never have? Dawnland is a poignant reminder that the longings inside of us never go away. Tess Callahan killed me softly with this book. My heart is still in her hands…” —Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author of The Wives and Good Half Gone

“Tess Callahan writes with furious urgency about yearning and desire. As family secrets are gradually revealed, the reader begins to glimpse how we are all complicit in the dance. Emotionally powerful, Dawnland explores questions of betrayal, guilt and loss, and the high cost we must pay for genuine freedom. The ending will stay with you long after you turn the final page.” —Alan Watt, Los Angeles Times bestselling author of Diamond Dogs and The 90-Day Novel

“Tess Callahan works magic in her novel Dawnland, writing with mesmerizing lyricism and wisdom about an extended family’s fraught week on Cape Cod. On the eve of their widowed father’s second marriage, two brothers as different as night and day gather with their wives and children for an annual vacation by the ocean that turns out to be anything but mundane. Dawnland is a deeply intelligent story about marriage, parenting, adolescence, and the challenge of reckoning with one's choices. I loved it.” — Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party