“As a novelist-historian of our times, James Carroll might be compared to the British novelist Doris Lessing - his work has her range and intensity…Carroll has become one of the writers who shape our sense of ourselves.” - Martin Green, The Atlantic
A New York Times Notable Book
“Mr. Carroll is a storyteller of growing power, and in ''Family Trade'' he has bitten off his biggest drama yet and made of it a surpassing banquet” - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
A brutal custody battle against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, “a novel of interesting depth and subtlety.” - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
“A feminist thriller” –Howard Zinn
Translated into eight languages