"With spare prose and a keen ear for the clipped interactions of people in denial . . . Foos untangles the troublesome knot that binds the families together one kinked strand at a time. Foos effortlessly inserts a humanized sin-eater into the center of a complex, emotionally volatile group of families, creating a work that is haunting and healing in equal measure." --Kirkus Reviews

"Foos' prose has an ethereal quality as she describes the person in the woods, and the allure surrounding her always. . . . This novel is not so much a puzzle to be solved as it is an experience to be had. Something to be tasted and consumed, crumbs falling by the wayside along with our useless insecurities." --NPR

"Told in alternating points of view, The Blue Girl explores how these relationships both define and confine each of the women. Foos has crafted a surreal story that is suffocating yet utterly compelling." --Shelf Awareness for Readers

"Foos has found her way into a different kind of surrealist story, one in which the prose has a rhythmic lilt, one that never rushes, but lingers inside the minds of the characters, uncovers their secrets one by one, and floats on their interweaving narratives." --Newfound Journal

"[The Blue Girl] winds beautiful prose with the stark, sorrowful imagery of loss, misunderstanding, and the ever-tightening, close-to-breaking ties of family." --Full Stop

"The Blue Girl such an emotionally driven experience is the elegant language and creative use of metaphor. . . . I recommend Laurie Foos' The Blue Girl as a novel that tells a familiar story of grief in a unique way through an incredibly genuine set of female voices."--Blotterature

"Laurie Foos is a weird Midas--everything she touches turns strange. . . . Each novel is as hysterical, weird, and heartbreaking as the last." --The Rumpus

"Inventively told from six perspectives, Laurie Foos's engaging novel The Blue Girl is a surreal yet very readable account of secrets and despair." --Largehearted Boy

"The prose is clean, exacting and approachable, which makes the arrangement of the book--and the swirling vortex of complicated psychologies--even more impressive and heartbreaking." --Star Tribune

"Reading Laurie Foos' The Blue Girl is like peering into someone else's dream . . . an entrancing experience." --Nomadic Press

"Part fantasy, totally fantastical, this is a book that will give your sweet tooth a twinge of the rottenness . . . and a taste of the dark secrets unsaid, especially those between mothers and daughters." --The Riveter, "Books to Read: Summer 2015"

"To put it plainly, Laurie Foos has written a stunning novel about despair." --Entropy

"If The Blue Girl resists the gratifications of 'realism' and its click-shut resolutions, she goes further by using language to let us experience the desires embedded in our deprivations." --On the Seawall

"At turns lyrical, absurd, and heartbreaking, her fabulist novel about this strange blue girl explores the strangeness in all of us." --Memorious Blog

"Strangely beautiful . . . Foos's talent for both subtle and fantastical imagery, the novel really feels like an unpredictable and emotional thrill ride." --NewPages

"Foos strikes a brilliant balance in acknowledging common similarities while also infusing her novel with overarching themes and big questions, all wrapped up in her fantastical blue girl." --River City Reading

"The Blue Girl such an emotionally driven experience is the elegant language and creative use of metaphor. . . . I recommend Laurie Foos' The Blue Girl as a novel that tells a familiar story of grief in a unique way through an incredibly genuine set of female voices."--Blottature

"Although the premise is fantastical, Foos grounds it in the relationships (and secrets) within families, especially between mothers and daughters." --BookPage

"Laurie Foos has a knack for the surreal with a side of feminism." --Dame Magazine

"A strange dark modern day fairy tale . . . dreamlike and sensory." --KAXE Northern Community Radio

"The novel deeply understands what it is to be a woman struggling with her role as wife and mother. . . . [It] impresses on its readers the strength that a secret can tangibly and physically carry-enough weight to make up an ingredient in a cake." --Samantha Preddie