Inside

“Alix Ohlin’s wondrously engrossing Inside and Signs and Wonders display her characteristic strengths—dynamic plots, keenly observed settings, and characters so idiosyncratic, ambivalent, and contradictory they could be your family, your neighbors, people you work with… She has a rare gift for examining the confusions of the 21st century, exploring the ways in which addictions, afflictions, attractions, and random impulses shape our lives.  Her intense and beautifully shaped new novel and stories offer tentative yet illuminating answers.” —Jane Ciabattari, The Boston Globe

“A writer who should be famous… Ohlin has as unsettling an old soul as Leonard Cohen’s.” —T.F. Rigelhof, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“Twisty, clever, and captivating… this cunning writer yanks you inside her world.” —Mary Pols, The San Francisco Chronicle
“Psychologically astute, emotionally resonant… Ohlin allows her readers to know her characters more fully than any of them will ever know each other… A quiet novel populated with beautifully drawn, complex characters that will get inside the heart as well as the head.” —Florina Pendley Vasquez, Shelf Awareness

“You can’t help but become invested in Inside. Ohlin displays a profound empathy for people at their least rational—and most human.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A memorable read….consistently surprising, often devastating as the protagonists find themselves unable to share what’s on the inside.” —BookPage

“Alix Ohlin is a crazy talented writer, smart and soulful.  Inside is, in a word, stunning.” —Beverly Lowry

“In her gripping novel, Alix Ohlin covers vast geographical and emotional territory.  With extraordinary power, she takes us inside the profound and fragile connections of her deeply human characters—each searching for salvation from the past while struggling to find forgiveness and redemption in the present.  This story of surprising turns, grace, and compassion left me feeling that my world and my heart had grown larger.” —Keith Scribner
 
"We’re lucky to live in a world with a writer as gifted and as graceful as Alix Ohlin. This book is instantly engrossing, engaging, and moving. I began to think I lived inside of this beautiful and absorbing novel, so real were her characters, so complicated and human their plights." —Robin Romm