Black Woods, Blue Sky

Reviews

“Ivey is an enthralling storyteller who paints the Alaskan landscape and its inhabitants with equal affection. Her empathy for her characters doesn’t falter . . . [Ivey] weaves the tapestry of her story so deftly, presenting the natural world with respect instead of romanticization, that later developments hit us with devastating force.”—New York Times Book Review

“Black Woods, Blue Sky is an original work of art that only Ivey’s imaginative powers, deep knowledge of Alaska and its beings, and commitment to depicting the real, loving, and often confused lives of her characters could create.”—Anchorage Daily News

“With lush and visceral prose, [Ivey] makes you feel tossed about by the chaos and violence of the story just as much as you’re held still by its tender, hopeful moments. It’s a beautiful and haunting story that sits with the complexity of consequences, the limits and endurance of love, and blurry lines between reality and myth.”—Condé Nast Traveler

“The curious fairy-tale genre of human-bear romance . . . receives a heartfelt new treatment in Eowyn Ivey’s Black Woods, Blue Sky.”—The Wall Street Journal

“This riff on Beauty and the Beast is well written and suspenseful, a story of a certain inner wildness and violence, of taking chances and facing the consequences, of a destructive love.”—Booklist, starred review

“Ivey takes readers on an emotional literary journey that includes touches of magic woven throughout and the question of whether love is enough to change someone.”—Library Journal

"Quietly suspenseful, laced with beauty and shot through with darkness, Black Woods, Blue Sky explores the nature of courage, the limits of love, and what happens when nature and civilization collide.”—Shelf Awareness

“Myth and reality fuse together in the Alaskan wilderness in the potent latest from Ivey.”—Publishers Weekly

“A stunning tale told by a master of her craft. Black Woods, Blue Sky is what skilled storytelling is supposed to be.”—Jason Mott, National Book Award winning author of Hell of a Book, and New York Times bestselling author of The Returned

“Black Woods, Blue Sky is a dazzling and moving journey into the reaches of the wilderness and of the human heart.”—Tiffany McDaniel, internationally bestselling author of Betty, On the Savage Side, and The Summer that Melted Everything

“Entrancing, tender, bold, and beautifully strange.”—Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Benson’s Beetle

“Black Woods, Blue Sky is an enthralling novel about the endurance of love, the power of forgiveness, and the savage, irresistible allure of wild places.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Hour

“To be in the imagination of Eowyn Ivey is to be wrapped in the exquisite pelt of the wilderness.”—Jackie Morris, author of The White Fox Expand reviews