Eve's Longing - Reviews

"An original, unsentimental novel about a woman's longing for knowledge and luminous experience - and the price she pays."

- Andrea Dworkin, author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women

"Ms. McKay's book is a sui-generis record of an extraordinary spiritual journey. Like Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, it is shocking and exhilarating in its bluntness, and in the beauty and humor of the prose."

- David Mamet, director of House of Games

"The contemporary Eve of this superb parable of ascent and descent tries to defy gravity. Her father, God, is no longer God the Maker but God the Theologian. Her sin is no longer of the flesh but of the mind. Her brief struggle is worthy of a saint, and in the end she drops like a crystal tear back into the primal waters. Sparer than Goethe's young Werther, less excitable than Queneau's Zazie, McKay's Eve is our own up-to-date urban saint."

- Andrei Codrescu, author of Belligerance

"With audacity and compassion, Deborah McKay presents Eve, a woman who goes to heartbreaking and heroic lengths to find truth and forstall disintegration in this funny, intellectually passionate, and linguistically daring book."

- Carole Maso, author of Ava

"The simple, almost naïve artistry of the writing itself is quite charming, one might say 'winsom.' It is impossible not to fall in love with Eve."

- John Yungblut, author of Discovering God Within

"Deborah McKay's writing forces us to rethink how we see and feel about the world around us, and invariably the retooling affords us a deeper and more spiritual understanding of place and mood, gesture and human concern and integrity. This is the long - awaited work of a first-class writer, mind, and human being.

- Michael Stephens, author of Jigs and Reels

"The character of Eve and McKay's animation of little things make this book a lovely, eye-opening winner. The author's talent runs deep."

- James Hillman, author of Re-Visioning Psychology