Swimming Home is unlike anything but itself . . . . Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens . . . Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel.

Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

Elegant . . . subtle . . . uncanny . . . The seductive pleasure of Levy's prose stems from its layered brilliance . . . [Swimming Home is] witty right up until it's unbearably sad.

Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Here is an excellent story, told with the subtlety and menacing tension of a veteran playwright.

Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

Exquisite . . . Levy's sense of dramatic form, as she hastens us toward the grim finale, is unerring, and her precise, dispassionate prose effortlessly summons people and landscapes.

The New Yorker

Ms. Levy is a stealthy storyteller, lulling us while busy scattering clues.

Susannah Meadows, The New York Times

Wholly new, fresh and, yes, profound . . . [Swimming Home] floats like a wasp, and stings like one too.

Tucker Shaw, The Denver Post