Critical Praise

" Bauer writes easily and well, and is adept at showing the essential poetry in simplicity. "

——Debra Ginsberg, The San Diego Union-Tribune

" The promise of Bauer’s quietly acute story collection, Working Women, (1995) is movingly realized in this contemporary odyssey…a gentle tale of good people moving through a prosaic yet curiously charged landscape, giving new shading to the concepts of home and family. "

——Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Boondocking is a story about an unusual--and mostly unknown--way of American life. It is about the new American family, grandparents raising grandchildren. Bauer’s writing is graceful and spare, her characters genuine. "

——Janet Cooper, The Providence Journal

"A picaresque novel, Boondocking is unique in its focus on the subculture of Rvers. The novel’s premise is wonderful, and Bauer…is clearly talented. "

——Melissa Pritchard, Chicago Tribune

"Tricia Bauer has a keen eye for detail, which she uses to good effect in her first novel, Boondocking. Bauer not only provides a vivid, believable account of the Vaeths and their adventures on the road, but she also offers a closer look at the many ways in which trailer-life affects their sense of themselves and their perception of the world spinning around them. "

——Merle Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor

"Journeys within a journey, insightfully described as the novel explores the evolving configurations of family and diverse definitions of ‘home.’ "

——Colleen Kelly Warren, St. Louis Post-Dispatch