"Weft is a spellbinding achievement. Kevin Allardice has woven a gripping exploration of family bonds and identity within a witty critique of American culture. It's hilarious, wise, and elegant-deeply emotionally resonant and rippling with creative risk. Weft puts Madrona Books on the radar as a daring new publisher to watch."

-Margot Douaihy, author of Scorched Grace

"Kevin Allardice's suspenseful, darkly comic tale of mother and son con artists leads its characters down an increasingly hair-raising path. Weft is wonderfully unsettling and unpredictable."

-Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk

"Weft will make your heart race and break it all at once. This may be a story about the artifice of scams, suburbs, and shopping malls, but Kevin Allardice is the genuine article, a rare author who makes blending terror with feeling look easy."

-Samantha Leigh Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle



"In Kevin Allardice's Weft, we meet a con artist named Bridget and her teenage son, Jake, as they travel from mall to mall in the '90s, pretending to be casting directors looking for an unknown kid to play Anakin in the new Star Wars movie. It's a rich set-up, one that Allardice pays off in unexpected and thrilling ways. Weft is just so much damn fun, full of rich '90s atmosphere and stunning details. Think The Grifters reimagined for Gen X. It even manages to be a great Halloween book. Bridget is a character I won't soon forget-it's hard not to imagine actresses lining up for a part like this when the eventual movie gets greenlit."

-William Boyle, author of Shoot the Moonlight Out

"At the intersection of realist literary fiction, surrealism, horror, and crime, Kevin Allardice's Weft is a powerful and unexpected novel about the ties that bind us to family and the lies we weave to make ourselves feel safe."

-Nick Rees Gardner, Independent Book Review