“Kelby’s slim, grim fairy tale exerts a subtle
pull…appropriately resonant and troubling.”

“To read Kelby’s novel is, in its own words, to ‘fall into a
dream, a flying dream.’ And to paraphrase and summarize such fine-spun fiction must
inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream
the morning after.”

“Luscious and heartrending…overflows with
miracles.”

“An understated meditation on spirituality in
the midst of war’s devastation.”

“Kelby puts forth divine miracles…She has created
a brave and beautiful book.”

“Kelby’s debut
novel is a luminous, harrowing tale of wartime horrors and miracles…Striking,
clear images give the novel a surreal cast…Such flashes of sensual detail are
made even more poignant when contrasted with the atrocities of the war, and
Kelby’s spare, elliptical prose effectively brings these moments to light,
infusing the emotionally and spiritually loaded subject matter with an uncommon
intimacy. Saints and Nazis may make strange bedfellows, but Kelby rises to the
challenge with considerable command in a haunting debut that erodes the
distinctions between waking and dreaming, faith and reason, life and death.”