Clearcut

Praise

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Books of the Year
San Francisco Bay Times Best Books of the Year
A Book Sense Notable Selection
Nerve.com’s Henry Miller Award for Best Literary Sex Scene

“A red-hot love triangle. . . . Bursting with period detail and smoldering with sexual tension, Shengold’s debut satisfies as both a beach read and a literary novel. GRADE: A.” -–Washington Post
 
“Erotically daring. . . . Stunning prose. . . . Shengold’s debut novel revisits the free love era with a fresh voice and an eye for the tricky fragility of inner peace.” –-Time Out New York
 
“An entrancing debut novel. . . . A powerful recreation of the place, the time, the people, an affecting, surprising and sometimes even shocking tale.” -–Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
“Sumptuously intelligent. . . . The setting [is] rendered in stunning detail. . . . The book’s vivid characters win our attention and hearts.” –-Out magazine
 
“Erotically atmospheric. . . . The sexual tension among the rough-and-ready lovers resonates thrillingly with the landscape. . . . A noveau hippie tale with boldness and spunk.” –-Kirkus Reviews
 
“Steamy sexual atmosphere . . . elegant prose.” –-Seattle Times
 
“A shaggy, steamy ‘70s menage a trois in a Pacific Northwest logging town. . . . Shengold’s characters are richly three-dimensional, and plenty of authentic era detail makes for a ripping read.” –-Publishers Weekly

“A stunning book, one of the best literary novels I have come across in a long time. Shengold’s prose is fluent like a river, and her characters are as sharp as knives in this beautiful love story.”  –Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain

“A beautiful, romantic, alive book. Clearcut is the patchouli and reckless love of the ‘70s, the rugged beauty and wreckage of the Pacific Northwest forests, woven together with a storyteller’s grace and the great grand character of Earley Ritter, with whom every reader will fall in love.” —Amy Bloom, author of Love Invents Us