“In lean, penetrating prose...Jones serves her themes most potently with an unflinching tumble of violent encounters that effectively transform Hal’s liberation...into a haunting act of transcendence.” — New York Times Book Review
“A taut and transfixing novel… [Jones is] a gifted young author.” — Boston Globe
“Manages to be both rich and sparse…with just enough carefully selected detail to breathe vividness into the novel…In what reads as a quiet, calm work, Jones captures the essence of dehumanized warfare and renders inescapable parallels in a more modern world.” — Denver Post
“What SMALL WARS shows us, and quite masterfully, is on how many fronts war takes its toll. Love, trust and intimacy in marriage become casualties. But so does war itself—our belief in it, that it’s right and just and necessary; that it solves anything…Told with strikingly clear and muscular prose…Jones’s narration is powerfully restrained, with a great deal of subterranean tension.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A darkly compelling account of honor and disillusionment with contemporary resonance…a confirmation of [Jones’s] considerable talent.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Ambitious and thematically charged…A timely novel, as well as a harrowing one” — Christian Science Monitor
“To this grave account of degradation—from great wars to small, from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation—Jones brings surprising reserves of energy and finesse.” — Donna Rifkind, Washington Post