"Bonnie Jo Campbellhas built her new novel like a modern-day craftsman from the old timbers ofour national myths about loners living off the land, rugged tales as perilousas they are alluring. Without sacrificing any of its originality, this storycomes bearing the saw marks of classic American literature, the rough-hewnsister of The Leatherstocking Tales, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Walden. Ron Charles, Washington Post