"Mayhem takes place on home ground. Sirois' intriguing innovation is to keep the focus hyperlocal... his book impresses. A worthy addition to a genre pioneered by writers like Cormac McCarthy and Matt Bell: the post-human pastoral." -Kirkus Review



"Sirois’s writing about the struggles of Tom, Bradford, and others in their circle is action-filled and compelling. Occasionally, it is also heartbreaking... Sirois brings to life the devastation that results from the comet-related social upheaval and from the ceaseless, often bloody competition for fuel, food, and other dwindling resources... [in] this insightful and timely novel" -Small Press Picks



"This is a compelling book, the science believable, the plot riveting. The setting of a world in collapse before, not after, the catastrophe has occurred seems to almost create a new genre, the pre-apocalyptic rather than the post-apocalyptic novel." -San Francisco Book Review



"Tom’s confrontation with loss, meaning, and just how much we are willing to accept without proof is timely in an age when information comes and changes so quickly. Fans of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road or Alfonso Cuaron’s film Children of Men will find a kindred book in Sirois’s Near Haven, all works dealing with what it means to survive. Sirois’s novel, set against the late 1980s backdrop of northern Maine, offers Beaumont as an everyman, allowing readers to experience fear and hope alongside the man looking to the sea for salvation as the sky threatens above." -Manhattan Book Review