Neverhome (Hunt)

Book Reviews
[E]nthralling.... Rarely, a voice so compels it’s as if we’re furtively eavesdropping on a whispered confession, which is how I felt reading Neverhome: I was marching alongside Ash, eager for more of her well-guarded secrets.... [Hunt's} ability to evoke her demeanor and circumstances in a gorgeously written sentence or two is one of the book’s many pleasures.
Karen Abbott - New York Times Book Review


A masterful job of story-telling...many beautifully written passages....For all its blood and wandering, The Odyssey is a tale of triumph. Neverhome, as befits the modern age, is more ambiguous.
Patrick Reardon - Chicago Tribune


Hunt effortlessly renders the cadences of the region and the times.
Gina Webb - Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Even with a wide range of subjects, his writing plumbs the depths of the internal struggles we all face and the external circumstances that shape how we respond....Hunt's writing is straightforward, unadorned in its complete portrait. At no point does the story feel like one told by a man in the 21st century; it is all of a piece with the temperament and thoughts of a woman taking up arms for her country.
Matthew Tiffany - Kansas City Star


The wiry, androgynous and mysterious Hoosier of Hunt's haunting novel Neverhome pushes through its pages like a spring crocus shoot....This is mystical, transcendent storytelling full of sun and shadows, memories and dreams, in a language and syntax from another time and place. Hunt...is an extraordinary, original writer.
Jane Sumner - Dallas Morning News


Inspired by true stories of women who fought, this plainspoken story packs firepower.
Kim Hubbard - People


The novel's cadence is deceptively low-key-it lulls, then startles with its power-much like the miraculous Ash.
Oprah Magazine


[A] haunting meditation on the complexity of human character, the power of secrets, and the contradictions of the American experience.... [Hunt] transcends simplistic distinctions between male and female, good and bad. The language...is triumphant as well: sometimes blunt, sometimes visionary, and always fascinating.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Hunt brings an especially bittersweet and lyrical tone to this forgotten part of Civil War history and gives to several hundred women who did indeed make the momentous decision to fight.... An amazing book.
Library Journal


Hunt uses Ash's powerful voice-a mixture of insight, eloquence and rural dialect-to make the brother-against-brother nightmare of the Civil War an intimate experience for the reader....Tragedy dogs the steps of a remarkable narrator whom readers will carry in their hearts long after her final battle.
Shelf Awareness


(Starred review.) A novel that takes us there and back again, "there" being the Civil War and back again, a farm in Indiana.... While comparisons to Cold Mountain are inevitable, Ash's journey has its own integrity. Hunt keeps the pace brisk and inserts some new feminist twists into the genre of the Civil War odyssey.
Kirkus Reviews