Critical Praise

"Wondrous. . . . Burnard unrolls the tapestry of the narrative without ceremony or writerly pyrotechnics, in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of The Bird Artist by Howard Norman. . . . All that life has to offer is served up effortlessly, with clarity, understanding, and insight."

——Valerie Ryan, The Seattle Times

"With its fine rhythms and textures of domestic life, A Good House recalls, at moments, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse."

——John Perry, The San Fransisco Chronicle

"Incandescent."

——The New Yorker

"A gem of a first novel."

——Time