Critical Praise

"A driving narrative and vivid characterization."

——Vermont Quarterly

"Wilderness Run has many pluses, including realistic battle scenes and some lovely writing...dramatic."

——Melissa MacKenzie, Rutland Herald Vermont

"A gripping debut, shot through with poetry and violence..radiant."

——Nick Flynn, author of Some Ether

"Hummel is a master of description and detail...[Her] novel is by turns lyrically poetic and starkly prosaic. She points up the human degradation and waste of young lives in war until it hurts."

——Margaret Grayson, Roanoke, Virginia Times

"A very strong book, fascinating on both its domestic and military sides, rich with incident, romantic, filled with bright and just detail and striking characters."

——Fred Chappell, author of Look Back All the Green Valley

"An utterly devourable historical novel."

——Mark Rozzo, The Los Angeles Times

"Hummel's poetically rendered debut novel contains the stuff of great fiction..vivid..intriguing."

——Lisa Robinson Bailey, The Independent Weekly

"Maria Hummel has heaps of talent and ambition..the reader is treated to delightful, fanciful and imaginative images."

——Andrew Cline, Greensboro NC News & Record