· A writer's writer who writes for others - Colum McCann

· A gorgeous, brutal writer - Richard Price

· One of the great American authors at work today - Janet Maslin, New York Times

· Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists - Richard Russo

· Magnificent is suddenly too small a word - Irish Times

· Finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver and William Faulkner. - Washington Post

· Rash's prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque. - Boston Globe

· Combining suspense with acute observations and flashing insights, Rash tells a seductive and disquieting tale about our intrinsic attachment to and disastrous abuse of the land and our betrayal of our best selves - Starred Booklist

· Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice - Wall Street Journal