"A remarkable and agonizing portrayal of a middle-aged man who doesn't know what's become of his life, and doesn't seem to care."-Esquire

"[A] two-fisted debut novel . . . Joe is John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom revised for the Trump era-more profane and straight-talking . . . Like a corner-bar Montaigne, Joe has an opinion on just about everything, from the wealthy to Bob Dylan to the 1974 Philadelphia Flyers to women's breasts . . . Joe is a boor, but Morris gives him an awareness of that boorishness, a complex past, and a gift for sturdy, well-turned observations . . . And Morris . . . has put a spotlight on a lower middle class that gets little attention in contemporary fiction, regardless of race . . .One of the graces of fiction is that an effective character doesn't have to be likable. Morris' novel is a surprisingly full portrait of one man who exemplifies the notion."-USA Today, 3/4 stars

"An engaging debut novel. Joe Knight . . . narrates in a gritty, defiant, sardonic voice that's one of the work's greatest strengths . . . A moving portrait of a lost soul in modern America, for all readers of literary fiction."-Library Journal (starred review)

"Suspenseful . . . Morris vividly evokes the dynamics among the boys-and later the disillusioned men-who came of age on the margins of a city in decline, and in the shadow of great colonial founding fathers."-National Book Review

"Kevin Morris goes for a slam dunk in his debut novel, All Joe Knight."-Vanity Fair Hot Type

“Morris’s novel deftly shows that the frustrations of a stunted middle-aged man are evocative terrain.”—Publishers Weekly


"An in your face account of friends, family, and Philly that I enjoyed all Knight long."-My Dad Reads Too Many Books