RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewAn elegiac voyage through these questions, a vaulting exploration of the interplay between the micro and the macro, the human and the otherworldly ... Leigh’s connection to, and reverence for, the natural world is profoundly moving. MacInnes’s descriptions are lush, almost devotional at times.
Lena Andersson Trans. by Saskia Vogel
RaveThe White Review... another scalpel-sharp look at a doomed relationship ... absurd and also painfully familiar to anyone who’s ever been there ... one of the key joys (if something so painful can be termed a joy) of this novel – its detailed dissection of a relationship’s dynamics and power-plays ... I am trying to think why these novels have connected so hard with women that I know, and I think that it’s Andersson’s treating of these intense emotional states with gravity and worth – emotional states that are so often gendered, or dismissed flippantly ... The narration throughout is cool and impartial, the prose razor-sharp and precise. Every other sentence begs to be underlined, reveals an uncomfortable nugget of truth ... When a man performs longing, in literature or otherwise, it is seen as somehow noble. When a woman performs longing she’s too often seen as hysterical, unstable, the shrew of Olof’s imagination. But in Acts of Infidelity, Andersson is not afraid to delve properly into the histrionic depths of a crush.