What the critics say about Q Road, a new novel about rural Michigan, by Bonnie Jo Campbell:

• A thoughtful, well-paced, deeply moral (though not moralizing) novel full of hard lessons and the wisdom gained from them across generations.- Publisher’s Weekly
• The vivid, varied cast and palpable sense of connection to the soil give (Q Road) a stern grandeur. – Kirkus Reviews
• The broad tableau of aluminum siding versus pig manure is rendered here with delicate, exacting strokes. – Mark Rozzo, L.A. Times
• In Q Road Bonnie Jo Campbell gives glorious voice to people we might dine among in a restaurant without giving them a second glance, whose homes we might glimpse in the distance from an Interstate without considering, even for a moment, the lives lived there. By writing with extraordinary empathy and grace about an odd handful of people in a place so small that it's all but invisible to everyone except those who love it, Campbell raises to our ears a sound not heard often enough in these dangerous times: the heart-rending cry of the human heart in all its flawed complexity. - Tony Earley
• Campbell’s spare, evocative prose is pure artistry, but her unusual characters and her unique way of linking the continuity of time with the land’s inhabitants prove her a writer to watch. – Joan Hinkemeyer, Rocky Mountain News
• Q Road is a whirlwind of vivid personalities, virtuoso prose, and intricate, engaging plot. Campbell is a storyteller every bit as gifted as Larry Brown or Eudora Welty, a social commentator as keenly observant as Tom Wolfe, and a wordsmith of the first order. You’ll delight in Campbell’s uniquely eccentric collection of characters. - Novelist Martin Clark