Heroes of the Frontier
The New York Times Book Review – Barbara Kingsolver
The common writerly mistake is to slight child characters for lack of a formed intelligence. But by around age 6, the psychologists tell us, we already have the I.Q. and most of the personality we're ever going to get. It's a rich combination—personhood unconstrained by the acquired prejudices of culture—and [Eggers] taps it here with impressive results. He likewise nails single parenthood in all its crowded loneliness and moral angst…Heroes of the Frontier…offers complex, believable characters…The heroes of this frontier are Ana and Paul, a dynamic duo who command us to pay attention to the objects we find in our path, and stop pretending we already know the drill.