Kate Southwood (All reviews)
- Aug 3 2015
"In this disturbing and honest exploration of human nature, Kate Southwood has done something remarkable and ruthless by asking over and over in different ways and through a memorable cast of characters: Is it always better to survive?"
— The Berkshire Edge - Oct 21 2013
Booklist: Top 10 First Novels 2013 - Aug 6 2013
The Quivering Pen: "Southwood has remarkable control over the language on the page..." - Jul 1 2013
Chalk the Sun: "This is a tremendous debut: insightful, imaginative and timeless." - Apr 29 2013
The New Yorker: "Southwood...delivers a powerful portait of grief." - Apr 26 2013
Financial Times: "Extraordinarily moving." - Apr 7 2013
Sunday Telegraph: "Southwood has turned a tragedy into serious fiction which transcends the time in which it is set." - Apr 3 2013
Chicago Reader: "Tragedy spawns tragedy in FALLING TO EARTH. It's the poise with which Southwood approaches it that makes it so heartbreaking." - Mar 27 2013
The New York Times: "[An] elegiac first novel." - Mar 22 2013
The New York Times Book Review: "An absolutely gorgeous — and completely modern — first novel." - Mar 12 2013
Of Books and Reading: "The language, the setting and the characters are beyond superlative." - Mar 8 2013
Bookmagnet's Blog: "Powerfully moving." - Mar 4 2013
Muse at Highway Speeds: "Southwood's prose is stark yet deeply felt." - Mar 4 2013
The Daily Beast: "[Southwood's] prose...is reminiscent of Willa Cather’s in its ability to condense the large, ineffable melancholy of the plains into razor-sharp images." - Feb 23 2013
Mary Whipple Reviews: "Southwood hits exactly the right notes and exactly the right level of detail." - Jan 7 2013
Publishers Weekly: "Southwood grounds abstract notions of faith, community, luck, and heritage in the conflicted thoughts of her distinct and finely realized characters."