#1 Indie Next Pick for May
One of the Best Books of May: Entertainment Weekly, Refinery29, PopSugar, Bookish, BBC, Chicago Review of Books, Real Simple, Goodreads
¡°Beautifully crafted....The Milton family history, rife with secrets and moral failings, including a deep-seated bigotry, is a timely...
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#1 Indie Next Pick for May
One of the Best Books of May: Entertainment Weekly, Refinery29, PopSugar, Bookish, BBC, Chicago Review of Books, Real Simple, Goodreads
¡°Beautifully crafted....The Milton family history, rife with secrets and moral failings, including a deep-seated bigotry, is a timely tale of America itself. An enveloping and moving page-turner.¡± ¡ªPeople, Book of the Week
¡°Sarah Blake writes in the historical fiction tradition of someone like Herman Wouk¡¦[She] is an accomplished storyteller, braiding in a large cast of characters and colorful excursions.¡± ¡ªMaureen Corrigan, NPR¡¯s Fresh Air
¡°An American epic in the truest sense¡¦Blake humanely but grippingly explores the heart of a country whose past is based in prejudice.¡± ¡ªEntertainment Weekly
¡°Blake masterfully tells the Miltons¡¯ history¡ªracism, prejudice, betrayal, loss, and all¡ªand in the process, captures a slice of American history as well.¡± ¡ªReal Simple
¡°Sarah Blake delivers a juicy multi-generational novel.¡± ¡ªChicago Review of Books
¡°It¡¯s a gorgeous book with a strong sense of place, like Empire Falls....If you¡¯re going to read one book this summer make it this modern-day classic.¡± ¡ªThe Missourian
¡°Do you ever pick up a book just to check it out and find yourself lost in it an hour later trying to rearrange your life so you can just keep reading? Well that happened to me this week [with The Guest Book].¡± ¡ªWYPR, Baltimore
¡°Sarah Blake spins a fascinating epic that touches on privilege and ambition, racism and grief, revealing as much about America¡¯s identity as it does the Miltons.¡± ¡ªChristian Science Monitor
¡°There are glimmers of To the Lighthouse in Blake¡¯s lyrical and questing new novel.¡± ¡ªBBC
¡°Sarah Blake is such a beautiful writer she can make any world shimmer, but The Guest Book is particularly fascinating¡ªan intergenerational exploration of memory, identity, love, and family loyalty, of what it costs to inherit a name, a place, and a difficult alignment with history. Powerful and provocative storytelling.¡± ¡ªPaula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife and Love and Ruin
¡°I loved The Guest Book. Sarah Blake has managed the extraordinary feat of writing both an intimate family saga and an ambitious excavation of the subterranean currents of race, class, and power that have shaped America. This is a vivid, transporting novel, written by a master conjuror of time and place.¡± ¡ªJessica Shattuck, New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle
¡°Sarah Blake¡¯s powerful, beautifully written story portrays a couple's secret choices that come to haunt succeeding generations. The Guest Book is richly atmospheric and morally compelling in a way that stirs the mind long after the last page.¡± ¡ªNancy Horan, author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky
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