"Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance close to prophetic brilliance.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Marianne Wiggins dares to make fictions that stand in the face of heart-cracking circumstance, fictions that, in fact, resound with hearts shattering.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“The author can make you weep in a single sentence... The events and relationships are rendered on the page with an immediacy that catches you up short.”
—The Boston Globe
“Wiggins is a writer of substantial gifts.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Marianne Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her reader live it... She renews our sense of what prose fiction can do.”
—The Sunday Times (London)
“Marianne Wiggins has... a passion to hurl herself into a continental unknown, to seek, misstep, redcover and push on, while noticing every blade of grass along the way... the mark of a true epic endeavor.”
—The New York Times