The Golden State Audiobook

Quotes

• "The Golden State anchors Daphne’s journey in the visceral and material realities of motherhood…The novel beautifully depicts the golden light of California.”

  — New Yorker

• “Kiesling vividly renders the high desert town, its beauty and its starkness, its juniper-scented air and its neglect…Kiesling is also an astute cultural commentator, shedding light on our current political divide.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “In heartrending prose, Kiesling weaves through an exploration of the political and the private, fear and love, survival and obligation, loneliness and longing.”

  — BuzzFeed

• “A lyrical look at the often alienating, disorienting experience of early motherhood.”

  — Nylon

• “The book has all the elements…flow, language, ideas, surprises, humor, and a great big heart.”

  — Millions

• “Depicts parenting in the digital age with humor and brutal honesty.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Kiesling is a talented author…with a unique voice. She’s very smart, very funny, and wonderfully empathetic…A skilled and promising writer.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Encapsulates the intense and often conflicting feelings of early parenthood: frustration, tenderness, isolation.”

  — Booklist

• “A perfect evocation of the beautiful, strange, frightening, funny territory of new motherhood.”

  — Karen Russell, New York Times bestselling author

• “A rare and important novel not only because it depicts with blazing accuracy the everyday experience of raising a young child but also because it uses the quotidian to reveal larger truths about humanity’s gifts and deficits.”

  — Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author