“North East is a poetic exploration of how we search and try to hold on to happiness.”
~ Diana Davidson, author of Pilgrimage

“In veracious, wide sweeps, and through sparsely punctuated prose, Wendy McGrath mimics the way that we remember. While within a few square blocks in 1960s Edmonton—a place we come to know intimately through its specificity of detail—we are continually just as unsettled and just as unsure as our young narrator is. North East is both sharp and rhythmic— specific and dreamlike.”
~ Jessica Kluthe, author of Rosina the Midwife

”The interplay between form and content is masterful.“
~ Rona Altrows, Alberta Views

“If the first entry in this trilogy felt like an elegy for a place, this second book is more an early funeral for a family struggling to remain cogent. This is an elegant, artful piece of work.”
~ Andrew Wilmot, All Lit Up

“[e]ven as the memory of Santa Rosa seems at risk of disappearing from the city’s consciousness entirely, McGrath’s fiction provides a bolt of hope. Her trilogy, once complete, may be the most visible and lasting tribute this neighbourhood has left.”
~ Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal

“Wendy McGrath, who is originally from Saskatchewan, has this poetic proficiency for illustrating the seemingly insignificant details of childhood, in the underwhelming idiosyncracies of youth and how they fathom the world around them.”
~ Emil Tiedemann, I Heart Edmonton

“... crystalline moments of poetic clarity.”
~ Jade Colbert, Globe and Mail

“Wendy McGrath’s novel is a must-read for those of us wanting to recapture the innocence of being a young child and the nostalgia associated with our hometowns.”
~ Alexandria Wolfe, The Wanderer Online

“A compelling and solidly entertaining read from beginning to end.”
~ Midwest Book Review

“tremulous and dreamlike”
~ Julienne Isaacs, Humber Literary Review