"Peck’s creativity and imagination are the best. He sails into the ozone with words and ideas. The novel is generous with the human condition and the fact that all people have weak knees at times. I very much liked the contrast between the weaknesses of his characters and their surprising strengths. This book is an act of love for the frailties of humankind, for the very deepest meaning of being human. The writing is marvelous, and Peck’s sensitivity to his characters is impressive. I fell “in love” after I read the book and felt like celebrating the frail yet beautiful persistence common to us mortals. This is also a first-class treatise on nothingness and whether or not any God can arise from such." —Phyllis Barber Author of The Desert Between Us and To the One Mormon Woman’s Search for Spirit "Only Steve Peck would meld elements from Mormon romance, the Book of Mormon, crime/psychological thrillers, academic prose, and nature writing and wrap them in theological speculation that is both universalist and uniquely Mormon. The result is challenging, heretical (in surprising, wonderful ways), redemptive, propulsive, and full of abundant, profound love and empathy for all living things, especially for us messed up, complicated, sometimes even murderous human beings." —William Morris co-editor of Monsters & Mormons and author of Dark Watch and other Mormon-American stories "Wow wow wow! THIS is the kind of Mormon novel I knew somebody had in them." —Angela Sweat Hallstrom Author of Bound on Earth and editor of Latter-day Fictions "Heike’s Void gapes open with humility, horror, hurt, and something somehow heartwarming, demanding answers of Mormonism’s most pressing question, a question too infrequently posed in contemporary Mormon literature, the question of Christ’s infinite forgiveness. It does so with onslaughts of ontological argument, tender questions of social justice, the caprices of natural disaster, the tiniest neural complexities, and nose to nose conversations with naughty dogs. These currents come together in what amounts to a page-turner of a harrowing family drama told with the earnest curiosity and fine, earthy detail of Peck’s alternately gentle and devastating prose." —Jennifer Quist. Author of Sistering, Love Letters of the Angels of Death, and The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner "Never has The Void been more abundant." —Michael Hicks, Professor Emeritus of Music, Brigham Young University and author of The Mormon Tabernacle A Biography, Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection, and The Street Legal Version of Mormon’s Book