“With perfect pitch and no trace of sentimentality, Prose . . . lands on the precise emotional key for this novel . . . allowing humor and compassion to seep through the cracks of an otherwise dark tale.”
-San Francisco Chronicle

“Ms. Prose is perceptive. . . . Her modest-sounding book turns out to be beautifully wrought.... and yields an unexpectedly rich, tart, eye-opening sense of Nico’s world.”
-New York Times

“With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief...Prose exquisitely renders her characters’ grief and bafflement.”
-Los Angeles Times

“Arguably, “Goldengrove” is her best book yet.”
-Seattle Times

“Prose locates the life force that gives her narrator the quirky, irreverent but undeniable sound of a survivor. . . . Prose is tremendously skilled.”
-Chicago Tribune

“Francine Prose’s new novel is a quiet, clear-eyed, sun-dappled eulogy to lost youth, and a youth lost. . . . [Prose is ] a keen chronicler of human emotion.”
-Elle

“A page-turner, thanks to its wholly identifiable, and perfectly flawed, young heroine. A-”
-Entertainment Weekly

“A beautiful narrative that defines resilience as the sometimes heartbreaking act of simply living”
-Redbook Magazine

“A poignant account of growing up amid sorrow...a tender and moving story of adolescent love.”
-Hartford Courant

“Prose holds up a mirror to grief and family life we can’t look away from, revealing their truths on page after page, in beautifully crafted writing.”
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Prose’s skillful rendering of the human ability to accept hard truths and move on is a poignant lesson for us all.”
-Miami Herald

“Insightful, lyrical... “Goldengrove” is beautifully and simply written...a moving portrait of the search for identity through a landscape of pain and loss.”
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Beautifully crafted...perhaps her most emotionally satisfying novel.”
-Christian Science Monitor

“An exploration of the fragility of adolescent identity and the perilous undertow of grief”
-O magazine

“Prose creates characters with real flaws that make the reader both love and hate them. It is easy to put oneself in the position of any of the players...”
-Deseret Morning News

“Deeply touching and absorbing...”
-Publishers Weekly

“...emotionally authentic...a ravishing novel of the mystery of death and life’s assertion.”
-Booklist (starred review)