Critical Praise

" Almost unbearably authentic and powerful...Anyone who picks up this novel and reads the first paragraph will be hard pressed to put it down. "

——Cleveland Plain Dealer

" A new romanticism, with a reverence for the land, a transcendent optimism, and a sense of mythic wholeness...Push[es] the secular mode of modern fiction into the sacred mode, a faith and recognition in the power of the world. "

——American Literature

"Superb. "

——New York Times Book Review