"Wrenching. . . . Suspenseful. . . . By far her best novel." --The New York Times

"Extraordinary. . . . Panoramic. . . . Poetic. . . . Minot shows her readers that war zones cannot be contained within one country, or one region. When cruelty and violence reign, we are all at risk." --NPR

"A book about the relativity of pain; the grace of forgiveness; and the essential unknowability of a lover." --The Daily Beast

"A novel of quiet humanity and probing intelligence. . . . Susan Minot takes huge questions and examines them with both a delicate touch and a cleareyed, unyielding scrutiny." --The New York Times Book Review

"Clear and searing. . . . Pulls you in from the first page. . . . A book that looks hard at trauma, love, and humanity." --The Boston Globe

"Africa--described in Minot's muscular, evocative, and unflinching prose--offers itself up to Jane in all its beguiling beauty, its unremitting violence, and breaks her open like an egg." --MORE Magazine

"Visually intense. . . . Minot's writing is so potent and the story told so tragic, the novel sears the mind." --New York Daily News

"Daring. . . . Minot's cleanly sculpted prose and capacity to penetrate and open the mind and heart challenge us to step outside our comfort zone. Finally, there comes this realization: Esther and Jane aren't so different at all. We recognize their stories as ours. . . . Minot succeeds, through her fictionalized version, in making us care as much as she does." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"A haunting portrayal of two women." --Vanity Fair

"When there is a story the world needs to know, does it matter who tells it, or just that it gets told?. . . Minot tells both stories with such harsh, lyrical beauty that neither is easy to forget. Grade: A-." --Entertainment Weekly

"Hotly anticipated. . . . Wins the reader's heart." --Vogue

"Exquisitely poignant and painfully credible. . . . [A] heart-rending story, with [an] honest and bleak view of the power of love to heal so much human breakage." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Exceptional. . . . A fragile but unmistakable note of hope." --Elle

"Gripping. . . . Sensual. . . . Immediate. . . . Minot wants to do more than sound a drumbeat of atrocities. . . . She wants to use literature to transmute a human horror into something that can be understood and in time healed." --The Miami Herald

"Excellent, evocative. . . . Thirty Girls sketches the landscape with impressionist strokes and then burrows in to view the cruelties people can visit on one other and themselves." --The Seattle Times

"Thirty Girls conveys an important story that people need to hear. . . . Esther is a stunning character whose strength and bravery is an inspiration to readers." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A novel as raw, beautiful, and seemingly serendipitous as the politics, landscape, and culture of the sub-Saharan Africa it describes." --Shelf Awareness