REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Interview with Librairie Mollat – Etonnants Voyageurs Festival
Le futur est déjà là : Douglas KENNEDY, Emmanuelle PIROTTE, Erin SWAN – Etonnants Voyageurs Festival
Conversation with Brenda Peynado, author of The Rock Eaters
Interview with Keen On/Lit Hub
Q&A with Campaign for the American Reader
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
“Swan’s prose wonderfully portrays things [the characters] cannot comprehend but whose meanings are nonetheless plain to the reader. This rich, endlessly engaging novel is, one hopes, the first in a long career for an author who has the talent and imagination to write whatever she wants.” —The New York Times
“Swan’s ambitious debut spans two centuries, following one family over generations as Earth undergoes massive, catastrophic climate change…Grand in scope and jumping around in time, Swan’s first novel offers a unique multigenerational saga against the backdrop of our changing planet.” —Booklist, starred review
“Swan creates characters so fully lived in, with such detail and heart, that I would have read more if given the chance. As it is, I read the entire book in three days, gripped by the story. It is not an escape, but what is in the world we live in? This planet exhausts him,’ writes Swan of one character. Readers will recognize this feeling, exhausted by the constant onslaught of personal, political, and environmental disasters. What would it look like, Swan appears to be asking, if we could imagine something beyond the ‘regular litany of horrors?’ Can we create something new, beautiful, and lasting in the wake of the world? Swan’s novel suggests we don’t have any other choice but to try.” —Ploughshares
“This debut has a lot going for it. For one, the writing is beautiful. And, things like disability and mental illness are represented sensitively through fully formed characters. It also presents an interesting examination of motherhood and what it means. Read it for a dystopian that explores climate change with a diverse cast of characters.”—Book Riot
“Though the shifting planets and timelines bring to mind the novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin and David Mitchell… Swan has fashioned a deeply original story that reflects on America’s founding myths, the climate damage wrought by all of us, and the many unknowns of the century ahead.” —Chicago Review of Books
“Walk the Vanished Earth earns its wide-net approach as it engrosses, entertains, and, most importantly, reminds readers why we even tell each other stories in the first place…To call [it] a page turner is an understatement.” —South Carolina Review