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Baltimore Sun
"Donner's writing is nothing short of gorgeous, alive to the intricate hostilities between girls and the tangled alliances among women. The compassion she summons for the desperately sad children in this book is nearly crushing in its intensity. This is a remarkable debut." Read more...
Publisher's Weekly
"A family puts down roots in a hardscrabble Southern California apartment complex in this colorful, wonderfully realized first novel." Read more...
Kirkus Reviews
"A migratory mother flirts with stability in first-timer Donner's strongly realized novel of place." Read more...
Gulf Coast Magazine
"Literate fiction dealing with the inner lives of children presents a challenge for both writer and reader. But Donner does her young characters the service of taking them seriously, investing them with self-awareness and the capacity for complex motivations, while writing with an asperity that keeps her clear of the maudlin and the trite." Read more...
Times Picayune
"In her debut novel, Rebecca Donner creates a twist on the typical villain." Read more...
The Oregonian
"Rebecca Donner's debut novel, Sunset Terrace, is the story of a grief-stricken mother putting her life back together in Los Angeles, and the daughter disappearing into the shadows of emotional isolation." Read more...