A Country Called Home

• Claire Davis A Country Called Home Kim Barnes   A seductive book of love and obsession, Kim Barnes's new novel, A Country Called Home, explores the consequences of a man's single-minded vision and the family made to walk the knife's edge between control and freedom. It is an elegant work, a lyrical feast so richly imagined it feels genuinely lived. Some books are easily put down, but the best of them, like A Country Called Home, won't let go of you.

  Submitted Jul 21st 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• Mark Spragg A Country Called Home Kim Barnes   The country through which Kim Barnes's characters travel in this novel of spiritual and emotional searching is a landscape eroded by grief and yearning and ultimately shame for our dissolution from our gods. I finished reading A Country Called Home some time ago and still cannot quite move on from the experience.

  Submitted Jul 21st 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• William Kittredge A Country Called Home Kim Barnes   A Country Called Home is a weave of human longings, accurate in its rendering of the ways they accumulate, always human, confounding and often heartbreaking but ultimately heartening. Give it a while, watch it come to life, and you'll find yourself rationing the pages, wishing it was longer. Kim Barnes is to be envied for her ability to open doors on the secret life of all our times.

  Submitted Jul 15th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments