“A novel of turnings; its narrator knows how to pause and gaze at the horizon, without the need for naming what lies beyond her sight, this moment. ….Bakopoulos’s narrator [is] a woman on the verge of a horizon she can’t see, and happier for it”—Chicago Review of Books
“Lyric…. moving, meditative novel about language, identity and a search for self-understanding…. moves in waves of beautiful imagery and well-crafted sentences, and beckons the reader to linger.”—Book Page
“Beautiful novels are common, but elegant novels are rare, and Archipelago is elegant in its honesty, its quiet wisdom, and its undaunted reckoning with the limitations of the stories we tell ourselves…. a singular, meditative, and absorbing read.” —Tupelo Quarterly
“A haunting debut with echoes of The Odyssey, Archipelago strikes a beautiful balance between meditation and mystery.” —Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Book of the Year
“[An] invitingly confiding tone, lovely descriptions of her surroundings, and thoughtful reflections on translation, swimming, aging, borders, and male menace.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Archipelago is a gorgeous, haunting novel about translation, narrative, and the slippage between selves: who we are and who others believe us to be. We follow our narrator-traveler on her dreamlike journey, from one achingly beautiful setting to another, from one memory to another, tantalized and unsettled by her every encounter. With this novel Bakopoulos weaves a spell and a mystery and makes something wholly her own.” —Lydia Kiesling, author of Mobility
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