"The literature style of Filaree is simple, fitting to the people, time, place."—Library Journal
"Filaree . . . celebrates her adaptability and accomplishment. This novel is a spunky commemoration of the stubborn spirit of the frontier to resist, survive, and prevail."—Western American Literature
“Western writers generally depict pioneer ranch women as plucky heroines or depthless sex objects. Not here in this grim corrective, in which the main character is flaming pissed off on the very first page and only encounters fresh—and entirely believable—reasons to be angry as her life shifts from the wilderness outside Globe onto the margins of urbanizing Phoenix.”—“40 Essential Arizona Books,” Tucson Weekly
". . . an engrossing tale . . . recommended for historical fiction readers."—The Midwest Book Review
