"A glorious tapestry . . . Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams." – Denver Post
"Rich, complex, witty . . . This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time." – Washington Post Book World
"An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul." – New York Daily News
"A novel full of aching sadness–as well as joy, humor, insight and wonderful writing." – Arizona Daily Star
"Animal Dreams is a novel that feel closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time . . . An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers." – Cosmopolitan
"Animal Dreams literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect . . . [It] leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope." – Houston Post
"Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind." – New York Times Book Review
"Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it." – San Francisco Chronicle
"Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent . . . Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book." – Chicago Tribune
"Kingsolver probes the human heart with uncommon wisdom. Animal Dreams is a gracefully written, large-spirited novel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal." – New York Newsday
"One of the year's best works of fiction." – Detroit News and Free Press
