"Catherine Tudish's A Thousand Souls is the work of a born storyteller, a writer's writer, with the evidence shining forth from every page. There's a marvelous sense of place at work here, and a deep understanding of the human heart. A Thousand Souls is why good fiction still matters." * W. D. Wetherell, author of "A Century of November" and "Chekhovs Sister" * "What a wonderful writer Catherine Tudish is and what a marvelous novel in stories she has written, so mysterious, so complicated, so beautiful. As one story opens into the nexta girl tames a bear, a boy briefly meets his father, a young woman takes French lessons, a sheriff loses his jobthe web of connections, and our sense of this very particular place in rural Vermont, deepens. A Thousand Souls offers the richest of reading pleasures: the experience of lives lived over time, and the secret sorrows and joys of the community." * Margot Livesey, author of "The Road from Belhaven" *
