Vintage Contemporaries

"This is a shattering book, imagined with startling emotional precision and generosity. And though it begins in catastrophe, Reservation Road turns out to be a kind of map of connectedness: Touch a child here and the whole world trembles out of orbit; everyone bleeds; finally, perhaps, after great pain, everyone heals. John Burnham Schwartz is awfully young to own this much wisdom, but there it is, on every page." --Rosellen Brown "A powerful and affecting novel...haunting...highly suspenseful...compelling to read." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Spellbinding...a haunting tale" --Booklist

"A poignant thriller...quietly breathtaking...a suspenseful literary novel" --Betsey Osborne, Vanity Fair

"A pleasure to read. Suspense is redefined here..." --Sandra Scofield, Newsday

"A lovely book, full of life and feeling" --Peter Matthiessen

"One of those rare--very rare--novels that you don't so much read as inhabit...But it's the novel's conclusion, as perfect as it is sudden, shocking and completely unexpected, that will stick in your memory." --Tom Dehaven, Entertainment Weekly

"A beautiful novel. An important novel" --David Bowman, New York Observer

"Both a beautiful, wrenching story of redemption, and a novel of exquisite suspense" --Anne Lamott

"A first-rate work of fiction disguised as a page-turning thriller" --David Halberstam

"An unexpected pleasure...It will leave the reader entranced as well as moved." --Erica Noonan, Boston Herald

"A non-stop read...a wonderful writer" --Ward Just

"A triumph of form, pacing and power...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thrille, swift and complete." --Kit Reed, New York Times Book Review

"It possesses a conclusion of such power that it would be a literary crime to reveal it." --Deirdre Donahue, USA Today