Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times

In Brookland, Emily Barton has taken an elegant way with questions of thought-provoking substance and has made a very fine and satisfying novel. And, if there is heartbreak at its end, those hearts are broken over things that mattered then ”” and still.

– Tim Rutten, the Los Angeles Times on Brookland

ReviewsKerin SmithJuly 9, 2009Brookland

Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times

In Brookland, Emily Barton has taken an elegant way with questions of thought-provoking substance and has made a very fine and satisfying novel. And, if there is heartbreak at its end, those hearts are broken over things that mattered then ”” and still.