PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksStrong ... There is something particularly relatable about Brooke’s desperate reach for some one thing that will help her feel realized.
Sheila Heti
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksPerhaps the most straightforward and enjoyable of her oeuvre ... Heti never misses an opportunity to make fortuitous play between chance and meaning. The randomization of the sentences is immediately compelling, trained as so many of us are to the disjointed syncopation of social media and text messages ... The diary brought me into a rapid felt intimacy with Heti ... It is a tidy little book, and the fun that reading it affords is a credit to the author’s compositional skills.
Téa Obreht
RaveThe Paris Review\"...reading Inland feels like a rare chance to read about people, history, and myth all at once without any part canceling out the others. The book is a marriage between some sort of Howard Zinn history lesson, E. L. Doctorow at his best, and the kind of murkily beautiful folktale that is so vivid in Obreht’s first novel, The Tiger’s Wife ... There are newspaper fights and gunfights and ghosts and romance, and I wish they’d all appeared earlier in the summer so I could tell the world THIS IS YOUR SUMMER READ. But in Inland, the past is present and will continue to be so into the fall and the next and the next.\
