RaveHarvard Review\"Inland, her highly anticipated second novel, does not disappoint ... The stunning moment when Lurie and his traveling companion meet Nora is the most brilliant scene in the novel ... The West’s natural inland is a character in both narrative threads, but the novel’s strength rests in the depiction of Nora’s inner landscape ... This dense tapestry of a novel, filled with searchers, discoverers, ghosts, and legends, opens a new window in American fiction ... Inland’s plot includes violence befitting the western, but not the serial atrocities of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian; rather, the novel recalls Don Quixote or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in its breadth and reach. How and why Nora comes face to face with Lurie and Burke will surprise as much as Obreht’s ingenious melding of literary traditions and historical facts.\
