“…[a] shatteringly original debut … Each character’s voice is real and authentic, rendered with hypnotic precision. … You could read Idaho just for the sheer beauty of the prose, the expert way Ruskovich makes everything strange and yet absolutely familiar. There is the sullen, oppressive heat, the lush verdant green of the forest, and the smothering cover of snow. There are ‘the drippy pines, the mulchy ground.’ She startles with images so fresh, they make you see the world anew … Idaho’s brilliance is in its ability to not to tie up the threads of narrative, and still be consummately rewarding. The novel reminds us that some things we just cannot know in life — but we can imagine them, we can feel them and, perhaps, that can be enough to heal us.”
–Caroline Leavitt, The San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2017
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