“Girl Flees Circus is a vacation to a place in the past you’ll remember for years to come.”—Sharon Oard Warner, author of Writing the Novella
“I absolutely loved it. The writing is stellar. The characters stay with you, and the story line is fresh, the dialogue wonderful. I laughed in many places but also felt each character’s regrets and sadness. Brilliant!”—Ann Weisgarber, author of The Glovemaker: A Novel
“This is a hell of a read. Girl Flees Circus is the closest you'll come to reinventing your life from an armchair: all new people, fresh observations, wit, and achingly beautiful language.”—Lisa Schamess, author of Borrowed Light
“This little settlement so far from our urban worlds wouldn’t strike us as a place we’d want to live, but it comes vividly alive with Katie’s arrival. The inhabitants are ordinary people in an ordinary place that Smith has made seem magical.”—Jim Sanderson, author of El Camino del Rio
