RaveNew York Times Book ReviewThe thing I was prepared to like least about Amelia Morris’s funny and engrossing debut novel — new motherhood and all the requisite growing pains — ultimately became the thing I admired about it most ... I have been known to ask friends what, if anything, they like about having kids. Leanne Hazelton, the narrator of Wildcat, answered that question for me in tender, often quotidian ways ... The more powerful parts of the story come from Morris’s witty observations ... There are also poignant epiphanies about family, which occur via a truce with her Republican physician mother and a severing of ties with her father’s embittered widow. I reread that chapter several times, feeling as if I’d had the wind knocked out of me, and suspecting I wasn’t reading fiction at all ... Wildcat was a book I couldn’t set down for long.
Lacy Crawford
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewNotes on a Silencing is a purposefully named, brutal and brilliant retort to the asinine question of \'Why now?\' ... Crawford’s writing is astonishing. There are lines that keen ... The story is crafted with the precision of a thriller, with revelations that sent me reeling. Notes on a Silencing also left me with a deep heartache and little relief, though Crawford offers up moments of reprieve where she can ... If you are looking for a story about triumph, about justice, you will not find it here. But perhaps that is a necessary thing.
