FALLING TO EARTH Kicks Up a Storm with Reviewers
Kate Southwood's gripping novel about the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, FALLING TO EARTH, has been receiving some well-deserved critical attention.
The New York Times featured this "elegiac first novel" in its Newly Released Books section this week, and the Sunday Book Review's Max Byrd described FALLING TO EARTH as "absolutely gorgeous" and "completely modern." He observed that "Southwood’s beautifully constructed novel, so psychologically acute, is a meditation on loss in every sense."
The Daily Beast found Southwood's prose "reminiscent of Willa Cather’s in its ability to condense the large, ineffable melancholy of the plains into razor-sharp images."
The New York Times featured this "elegiac first novel" in its Newly Released Books section this week, and the Sunday Book Review's Max Byrd described FALLING TO EARTH as "absolutely gorgeous" and "completely modern." He observed that "Southwood’s beautifully constructed novel, so psychologically acute, is a meditation on loss in every sense."
The Daily Beast found Southwood's prose "reminiscent of Willa Cather’s in its ability to condense the large, ineffable melancholy of the plains into razor-sharp images."