All Things Cease to Appear (Brundage) - Book Reviews

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Slightly Gothic, socially perceptive, and briskly written…. Set in a seemingly haunted farmhouse is a rapidly gentrifying Hudson Valley town, the complex literary thriller ranges across generations of traumatized, interwoven families.
Boris Kachka - New York


Superb…think a more literary, and feminist, Gone Girl.  As the seemingly perfect marriage at its core reminds us, the most lethal deceptions are the stories we tell ourselves.
Megan O’Grady - Vogue


(Starred review.) [Brundage's] searing, intricate novel epitomizes the best of the literary thriller, marrying gripping drama with impeccably crafted prose, characterizations, and imagery.... Succeeding as murder mystery, ghost tale, family drama, and love story, [this] novel is both tragic and transcendent.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Instead of the traditional whodunit path...Brundage takes the reader back in time to reveal what led to...[the killing].... [A] piercing new novel. Part mystery, part ghost story, and entirely brilliant.
Library Journal


(Starred review.) A dynamic portrait of a young woman coming into her own [and] of a marriage in free fall.... It rises to [great] literary heights and promises a soaring mix of mysticism.
Booklist


(Starred review.) You get in your car, drive to work...back at home, someone is chopping your wife to bits.... Brundage carries the arc of her story into the future, where the children of the nightmare, scarred by poverty, worry, meth, Iraq, are bound up in its consequences.... [T]his is a book that you won't want to read alone late at night.
Kirkus Reviews