National Bestseller

The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Winner of the Jesse Jones Award for Best Novel of the Year

Winner of the WLT’s Best Fiction of the Year

“A cause for celebration…Literature of the highest order . . . the music of it all is just so damn seductive. . .  A darkly dazzling pilgrimage of violent delights, and violent ends.”—The New York Times

“A heartfelt yet unsparing read, one that manages to return to the victims of the Branch Davidian cult their humanity, making us see more of them than their misdeeds.”—The Boston Globe

“A magnificent portrait of how even as the rivets of our republic are popping loose, plumes of beauty still rise from the soil upon which so much wrong continues to repeat.”—Rick Bass, author of For a Little While and Why I Came West
 
“Who decides what we believe? Johnston allows curious onlookers inside the compound and the hearts of Waco in a perfect marriage of history and art.”—Booklist, starred review

“Symphonic and suspenseful.”—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March

“A colossal achievement of We Burn Daylight is that it demands to be read in a breathless rush, and afterward, demands deepest and most private reflection.”—Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning