“While Miami has inspired its satirical works of genius, chilling mystery novels and excellent accounts of Cuban exile, we’ve mostly run short on first-rate literature that takes the city seriously enough to capture its eccentricities without flinching....Daniel, with Sea Creatures, gets it absolutely pitch perfect.” - Miami Herald
“A sophisticated story that holds the reader rapt….[Daniel] sets up each scene in Sea Creatures with masterful strokes….She builds momentum from the opening chapter, leading up to the crescendo….Daniel drives into tumultuous waters and emerges with a mesmerizing, beautiful novel.” - Wisconsin State Journal
“Utterly enthralling…. [Sea Creatures is] about love, loss, and longing in their most familiar forms. Brace yourself: you’ll fall hard for the characters, and your heart will break preemptively-even before the hurricane blows through.” - More.com
“Susanna Daniel brings an uncommon intimacy to her characters’ lives, and also to the landscape where those lives unfold-a cartographer not only of the shore and the ocean but of the passions, bruises, joys, and insufficiencies of the human heart.” - Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
“A tender tale of a woman navigating the responsibilities and risks of parenthood.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“An intelligent page-turner (that is, the dream combination) about, among other things, South Florida, art, insomnia, and marriage.” - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and Sisterland
“Daniel’s writing is rich in description—of both its lush Florida settings and her characters’ emotional landscapes—that draws the reader in.” - Isthmus Review
“Sea Creatures is perfect for summer reading, a more literary offering than your usual beach fare. Author Susanna Daniel crafts beautiful, dreamy descriptions of ocean life that threaten to lull readers into a sense of complacency.” - The Daily News Journal (Tennessee)
“There’s a charmer at the heart of Sea Creatures….Almost like an action-filled, emotional memoir….Gripping.” - Associated Press
“What I found most stirring in Sea Creatures is how deftly Daniels exposes one of the most agonizing realities of parenthood: that no matter how hard we try, or how endless our love for our children, we are hampered by our own limitations, sometimes even tragically.” - Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life
“Don’t confuse the waterfront setting with light beach reading; this is substantive domestic drama…readers interested in families coping with disabilities will find Frankie particularly compelling as he navigates changing relationships and obstacles.” - Library Journal
“A sophisticated story that holds the reader rapt….[Daniel] sets up each scene in Sea Creatures with masterful strokes….She builds momentum from the opening chapter, leading up to the crescendo….Daniel drives into tumultuous waters and emerges with a mesmerizing, beautiful novel.” - Jeanna Kolker, Wisconsin State Journal
“Utterly enthralling….[Sea Creatures is] about love, loss, and longing in their most familiar forms. Brace yourself: you’ll fall hard for the characters, and your heart will break preemptively-even before the hurricane blows through.” - Catherine Newman, More.com
“Daniel returns to Stiltsville’s South Florida in a second novel filled with domestic upheaval, difficult choices, and far-reaching consequences….Daniel’s verdant descriptions of salt and sea continue to shine, as does her portrayal of a mother struggling to protect her son.” - Publishers Weekly
“Uses lyrical story-telling to relate profound truths about the attachments we form in life-to people, to places, and to notions of who we are-and how those attachments, formed in happy times, sustain us through the hard times. . . . Daniel’s writing is lovely and unaffected, honest and open. . . . Stiltsville is a compelling portrait of a marriage, a sweet serenade to Southern Florida, and a moving account of a woman’s life.” - Nina Sankovitch, Huffington Post
“A captivating, haunting novel about the complexities of the human heart and its attachments, terrain as slippery and beautiful and disaster prone as Daniel’s South Florida.” - Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
“Susanna Daniel’s powers of creation are so vast, and the South Floridian landscape she describes so vivid, that this life-long Manhattanite briefly thought of hurricane-proofing her own windows. But what I found most stirring in Sea Creatures is how deftly Daniel exposes one of the most agonizing realities of parenthood: that no matter how hard we try, or how endless our love for our children may be, we are hampered by our own limitations, sometimes even tragically.” - Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life