“What an extraordinary,razor-sharp, utterly original and gripping voice. Sara Lippmann's Lech is at once a painstakingly drawnexploration of claustrophobia, exploitation, predation, and place, and a primalhowl of rage let loose in the wind. Told in unflinching prose and with searingpoetic intensity Lech burns with all the furyand tenderness of an open wound.”
– Catherine Chung, author of The TenthMuse
"Lech is the ambitious debut novel of anexcellent new prose stylist."
– The Millions
“A funny, brutal, symphonic novel from awriter with intensity and authority to spare. The world of Lech isas vivid, as wild, and as shockingly familiar as life itself, but way moreinteresting and way better told.”
– Elisa Albert, author of After Birth
"Lippmann's amiable writing makes forgreat company."
– Publishers Weekly
“Lech takes place over a singlesummer in the Catskills, but it’s far bigger than that. Sara Lippmann is finelyattuned to the cultural, political, and religious tensions that arise betweenthe vacationers and the locals, between the haves and the have-nots. And, wow,those sentences! Lippmann writes like a dream.”
– Joshua Henkin, author of MorningsideHeights
"For the right reader, this jigsaw puzzleof a novel will be a pleasure."
– Kirkus Reviews
“Sara Lippmann's novel Lech isquilted together with loose stitching, holding the sensual with the grotesque,the intimate with the alienated, the paratactic with the full, and on and on.It is masterfully composed.”
– Seth Rogoff, author of Thin Rising Vapors
“Sara Lippmann's Lech is asuperb Jewish gothic, an expertly pitched polyvocal tale of family, loss, andredemption. By turns funny, beautiful, lewd and heartbreaking, Lippmanndelivers a literary performance with all the timing and energy of a greatBorscht Belt comic.”
– Adam O’Fallon Price, author of The Hotel Neversink
