“Stunning…[a] razor-sharp novel with moments of soft padding…Gänsler builds tension, both personal and existential, with astonishing control, and care.” —New York Times
“A tense, atmospheric thriller whose primary threat derives from the literal atmosphere…Eternal Summer concludes with several great set pieces…a credit to Gänsler’s vision and Taylor’s lucid, intimate translation. There is even one unexpected final twist that tugs at the heartstrings and shows how thought-out this multifaceted debut truly is.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“Exceptional…Startling portrayals of womanhood and contemporary gender imbalances make Eternal Summer an emotional, powerful novel.” —Foreword Reviews (starred review)
“Informed by images of people trapped indoors in smoke-filled cities from the U.S. to Thailand…[Eternal Summer is] a work of psychological suspense, but Gänsler also wanted German readers who escape en masse each year to the ‘good air’ of their southern mountains to imagine a world that no longer offered such respite.” —Publishers Weekly
“I loved this book. Exploring the unsettling tension between individual lives and the collective upheaval of the climate crisis, it questions what we owe one another. Its haunting is subtle, slow and flickering from page to page until it catches. The two women stayed with me for days afterward.” —Sarah S. Grossman, author of A Fire So Wild
“Gänsler’s language is calm and unerring. Parallel to the fatal consequences of the climate crisis, she also narrates the story of women.” —Der Spiegel
“A feminist climate-fiction novel that gets under the skin in many different ways.” —Berliner Zeitung
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