Critical Praise

“This is a novel you read with sharp attention, both to the important questions it asks and to the complicated answers it offers.”

——Entertainment Weekly

“Martin is an uncompromising, serious writer, concerned with both the eternal verities and what matters right now…[Trespass] is the best kind of moral fiction, the kind that interrogates morality itself.”

——New York Times Book Review

"Martin, a writer of imaginative precision, renders her large themes with individual and social examples as sharp-edged as crystals…The writing is sinewy and breath-stopping; Martin's fineness of perception only intensifies it."

——Los Angeles Times

“Trespass provides a searing commentary on the human desire to set boundary lines against threats, perceived and real. It’s a testament to Martin’s skill as both storyteller and writer that her complex characters defy separation into two camps–those who accept and those who judge. Nothing in Trespass is quite as it seems, and that is precisely the point.”

——San Francisco Chronicle