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“Finely crafted…funny and insightful…. The folk who inhabit Godsfinger are a delightful crew of nosy-parkers, pulpit thumpers, main chancers, dirt farmers, romantic hopefuls and busybody charismatics.” -- The Hamilton Spectator
“Anderson-Dargatz has done [for Alberta] what Margaret Laurence and and Sinclair Ross have done for small-town Manitoba and Saskatchewan…. Exquisite.” -- The Edmonton Journal
“Few contemporary Canadian novelists can match [Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s] ability to capture those moments of acutely observed rural life that conjure mood and a way of life.” -- The Globe and Mail
“Funny, sharp [and] very satisfying.” -- The Gazette (Montreal)
“It’s Anderson-Dargatz’s particular genius to understand that most rural people don’t travel far from home, and that their communities can provide health and salvation as well as angst and isolation. It’s all a question of who you hang out with and how you look at things. Job’s journey from loneliness and the weirdness of synesthesia to love and self-acceptance only takes him a couple of kilometres from the family farm, but it’s as expansive and adventure-laden as Homer’s Odyssey…. The dangers of farm life are here in abundance [and] there’s a whole slew of enticing, comforting, subversive and wayward women. [And] as in her other novels, the eccentricities of Canadian rural life are incorporated seemlessly and hilariously into Anderson-Dargatz’s narrative.” -- Bronwyn Drainie, Quill & Quire
Praise for Gail Anderson-Dargatz:
“Anderson-Dargatz has something that no amount of craft can give a writer: she is hopelessly in love with and attentive to her subject, the physical world and all its gifts.” -- The Globe and Mail
“Anyone who thinks rural characters in Canadian fiction are dull and bland should pick up one of Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s novels.” -- The Financial Post
“Anderson-Dargatz writes with a terrible beauty. [Her] writing is by turns warm and chilling, tempered to the mysteries of nurturing and nature. Her command of imagery and dialogue is nothing less than remarkable.” -- Georgia Straight
“[A Recipe for Bees] is heady blend of earthy realism and romantic exoticism. This is a bravura work.” -- The Times Literary Supplement
