"A complex and emotionally rich novel. . . . Valerie Martin leaves you with a sense of having read a story that will continue to unfold long after you have put the book down."
—Times Literary Supplement (London)

"This is a novel you read with sharp attention, both to the important questions it asks and to the complicated answers it offers."
—Entertainment Weekly

"American exceptionalism. American self-absorption. Books, essays and newspaper columns have treated the theme, but not much fiction [until] Valerie Martin in [this] dark and wickedly diverting novel about the storm-driven erosion of Fortress America."
—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times 

"Ambitious. . . . Trespass's dramatic yet wholly surprising conclusion underscores that the future arrives with every minute-even if we can't predict which corner of the past it will spring from."
—Vogue

"Provocative and exhilarating. . . . a masterly tale of transgression, acceptance, diplomacy, war, class conflict, love, forgiveness, and jealousy."
—The Times (London)

"Trespass provides a searing commentary on the human desire to set boundary lines against threats, perceived and real. It's a testament to Martin's skill as both storyteller and writer that her complex characters defy separation into two camps-those who accept and those who judge. Nothing in Trespass is quite as it seems, and that is precisely the point."
—San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] gripping and powerful novel of tight-lipped manners and horrific atrocities."
—Margaret Atwood

"Unsettling and at times tragic, Trespass casts a cold eye on the American family and reveals the uncertainties that cloud our evolving national identity."
—Time Out New York

"[Martin] is not afraid to take risks. . . . Trespass is a beautifully constructed, richly textured, and elegantly written novel."
—The Independent (London)

 "Stunning. . . . initially propelled by a drumbeat of dread, this book morphs into something both thoughtful and magical."
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"[Martin's] most intriguing and absorbing novel yet...A brilliant contemporary novel that plays out on the world stage."
—The New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Moving and disturbing. . . . taut, nearly-perfect. . . . Trespass is a profound cautionary tale for our times."
—Buffalo News

"Brilliant and seductive."
—People (four stars)

"Martin is an expert at combining simmering menace with a cool, merciless irony."
—Salon

"Arresting. . . . Trespass is a literary treasure hiding in plain sight."
—Chicago Tribune

"A wickedly diverting novel about the storm-driven erosion of Fortress America."
—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times 

"Mesmerizing. . . . a war novel that gives you a glimpse of what war might really mean. . . . Trespass revels in truth."
—The Washington Post Book World

"Astonishing. . . . Martin leaves the reader with an indelible, crushing view of the many ways, psychological and physical, real and imagined, in which people get in each other's spaces, with all-too-frequently appalling circumstances."
—The Wichita Eagle

"Valerie Martin is a marvel. She takes us to such unexpected places, so elegantly, so deeply yet delicately, and with such unexpected insights."
—The Salt Lake Tribune