Advance praise for A Cold Spring This superbly accomplished novel is a magical place inhabited by jeopardized children who lead adult lives, and by grownups who are goofy, moonstruck lovers, all of them ruled by cruel finalities about which their author refuses to lie. She makes it impossible to stop reading her novel or to keep from cheering her characters on. Edra Ziesk, who loves each one of them, has spun them and their dangerous, enchanted world out of language that shimmers and stings. (--Frederick Busch)
There are few thrills as sublime as seeing the familiar from a fresh angle. Edra Ziesk is a writer capable of creating that sensation over and over again. In A Cold Spring, she portrays the fabric of relationships in a small Vermont town in sentences full of breathtaking metaphors. I felt held by her story as if in a spider web both delicate and strong. (Alice Elliott Dark)
A Cold Spring is that rare thing, a novel of community-of small-town life writ large. From parent to child, husband to wife, we meet strangers and locals estranged from each other, adrift in a landscape: at risk. There's fire and ice here for all. (Nicholas Delbanco)
