“A debut reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” —Jeffrey Eugenides

“As morally urgent as anything in Dostoevsky. How is it possible for a book with such manifest stakes to also be this funny? This propulsive? I don’t know how Harriet Clark wrote The Hill, but I’ll be rereading it for the rest of my life.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

“The story of two extraordinary minds, growing up in prison together. The Hill took two decades to write, and I really did have the sense that the insights of each of those years had culminated in a vantage point that feels totally new. I can’t stop thinking about it and demanding that everyone read it.” —Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves

“The Hill is a tenderly Kafkaesque novel about the cruelties and absurdities of incarceration. A book of tremendous depth and feeling that manages to be equal parts comedy of coming of age and Sebaldian rumination. Lady Bird meets The Emigrants. I loved it.” —Brandon Taylor, author of Minor Black Figures

“One of the most beautiful books I have ever read.” —Tara Westover, author of Educated

“A masterful meditation on discipline, mothering, revolutionary idealism, and forgiveness, The Hill is also a wry and intensely gripping story of a tender-souled girl making sense of the punishing world she’s inherited. The writing is so clear, lovely, and lonely—so gently philosophical—that when I got to the final line, I went back and began again, just to stay inside.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts

“The Hill is tragic, comic, gorgeously written, and overflowing with life; everything you hope a novel will be when you read its opening line. It’s a rare experience when a novel not only fulfills those hopes, but transcends them. The fact that this is Harriet Clark’s first novel is not only astonishing, it speaks to the greatest hope of all—that the future of American literature is in exceptional, inspired hands.” —Michael Cunningham, author of Day

“This book is a joy to read: the writing itself is wonderful but the conception is magical. I sincerely hope The Hill gets all the attention it deserves.” —Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments

“A profound excavation of a young girl’s consciousness, Harriet Clark’s The Hill is sad, funny, and unique.” —Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show

“The Hill is a beautiful, atmospheric and complex novel about the burden and power of parenting. In haunting, lyrical prose, it conveys the cost of forgiveness and the greater cost of failing to forgive.” —Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Alternatives