Book Reviews

Anniston Star

"Mirror Lake is an eloquently written tale of two love stories brought together by an unlikely friendship. A stunning accomplishment, Mirror Lake reaffirms the true power of love and its resounding ability to transform the human heart. These characters will stay with you a long time. Thomas Greene is a major new voice in American fiction."
-- Nelson De Mille

"This book gets Vermont just right, with its punishing winters and ravishing summers. Greene's characters, trapped in this powerful landscape, live out a story of love, betrayal, and violence that kept me turning the pages to the end."
-- Susan Cheever

"Mirror Lake is a strong and gentle book about friendship, loneliness, and the transcendent stubbornness of the human heart. A sweet, sad story, full of surprises and resonant of the green mountains and clear waters of Vermont."
--John Hough, Jr., author of The Last Summer

"Thomas Green's first novel, Mirror Lake, is a beautiful piece of writing. The descriptions of New England are haunting, the characters complex--in some way reflections of all of us. His prose is clean, poetic, and infused with the themes of family, death, loyalty, and romantic love. He writes with Emerson's love of the countryside and James M. Cain's ability to see tragedy at work in the lives of ordinary people. I think we're going to hear a lot more about this very fine novelist."
--James Lee Burke

"Mirror Lake is a taut psychological drama that carried me through from first page to last. Mr. Greene's is a bright new voice in American literature, a voice that can render exquisitely the sharpest truths of the human heart and the finest details of a passing landscape all at once. May many more books follow Mirror Lake!"
--Bret Lott, author of Jewel