Critical Praise

"Norumbega Park is an immensely heartfelt and successful novel: tender, tasteful, intelligent, and touching; rewarding, too, in its insights into the minutiae of suburban, lakeside America; the hollows in people’s lives; illness, suicide, ageing; and the failure of love."

—Jim Crace, author of All That Follows

"Norumbega Park is gorgeously intricate, an ‘epic of dailiness,’ as one of the characters refers to her life. It is also an epic of family intimacy sought, avoided, and found. The Palumbos forge one another mysteriously; the mundane actions of one can, at times, inadvertently bring life-changing consequences to another, as love, sex, and yearning for personal destiny draw others into their lives and decades pass. Perhaps this more than anything lies at the heart of a family and the heart of this profound and memorable novel."

—David Rabe, author of Girl by the Road at Night