“ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize.” — Toronto Globe and Mail
“I loved…it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we’ve come to love persevere and prosper?” — Anna Quindlen
“…remarkable happens...it becomes inspired… Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles.” — New York Times Book Review (cover)
“This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence.” — New York Times
“Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier’s 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain …” — People
“Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A remarkable debut… Splendid.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“…beautifully written passages…a real page-turner.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri’s logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence.” — Booklist
“Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history’s grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing.” — Kaye Gibbons
“You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book.” — Gordon Lish
“ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul.” — Carolyn Chute
“Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that’s a joy to inhabit.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn’t quite do Jiles’s novel justice.” — Washington Post
