RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksMasterfully narrated ... The hinge between the old and new worlds is the disappearance of other people ... Can it be mere coincidence that both of the fundamental human habits she keeps up—gardening and burial—are literally grounded in the earth? Over time, these practices of seeding futurity and interring memory gradually get uncoupled from a larger human context and become invested instead in the nonhuman forms of life that structure her new world and the home she makes of it ... The mountains and forests of The Wall are saturated, not just with significance but with actual signification.
Esther Kinsky, Trans. by Caroline Schmidt
RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksWe are guided through the mind and experiences of an unnamed narrator who suddenly finds herself in a terrain comprised of numerous thresholds ... Throughout Grove, the natural environment serves as a catalyst for memory that allows the narrator to continue her work of mourning ... [The novel demonstrates] that the many turns and returns of memory can become part of a \"path\" to \"be on\"—that, in other words, it is possible to move ahead precisely by circling back.
