“The Temple of Air is a book of unusual pleasures, each story offers the reader a small roller coaster of anticipation, fear, surprise, recognition, satisfaction. This is a beautiful book, intense and original.”
—Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“McNair’s plainspoken yet imaginative, complexly unnerving, and haunting stories raise essential questions of fate and will, appearances and truth, guilt and compassion.”
“The sheer and compelling energy of Patricia Ann McNair’s prose not only dazzles, but more so, draws the reader into the deep and complex emotional reaches of her irresistible, and compassionately rendered characters. The Temple of Air is both fierce, and unflinching in its affection for people, and place, and a wide range of tones—a kind of graceful caper by which this writer steals the reader’s heart.”