Wasp Box is full of wonders, by which I mean it s full of drunken fathers and the Finger Lakes of New York and middling wineries and too-smart-and-nosy-for-their-own-good kids and bomb shelters and young love and lost love and lost diaries and killer wasps. In this, his unbelievably smart, tense, breakneck first novel, Ockert has made something strange, and great, a book that is absolutely impossible to put down once you ve started it. BROCK CLARKE, author of Exley
With sentences as darting and sharp as the wasps that haunt this remarkable debut novel, Jason Ockert has crafted an...