«A novel with vast reach»

Electric Literature

«An unparalleled generational saga . . . one of the most potent voices in contemporary Latino and Native American literature»

BeLatina

«Woman of Light is a sweeping family saga, as the Lopez family makes their way back to their generational home. Farjado-Anstine incorporates the culturally significant elements of magical realism and nonlinear storytelling in her work.»

Bookriot

«There is so much to love about this saga . . . this novel is wholly engrossing. Loved it.»

Roxane Gay, via Goodreads

«Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you're swimming under a big, sparkling night sky»

Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You

«A lush, immersive historical novel»

Kirkus Reviews

«A cinematic, epic story. Kali Fajardo-Anstine brings her keen understanding of desire, vulnerability, and destiny to this gorgeous reclaiming of lost history»

Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk

«Fajardo-Anstine's storytelling is absolutely engrossing»

Shondaland

«A transporting story of the importance of family history told in a luminescent style»

Good Housekeeping

«An entrancing book about the stories we carry, the ones we need to keep telling. Fajardo-Anstine has given us another stunning cast of characters to root for»

Lithub

«An intimate and intensely moving story of a Latinx and Indigenous family in the American West. Kali Fajardo-Anstine's lyrical, unpretentious prose renders the generations of women of this story in all of their complexity, offering a nuanced perspective on how the past can inform the future . . . A formidable, necessary voice in fiction»

Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising

«Pure, simple, and luminescent . . . There are no other words to describe Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light; a brilliant conflagration of a story that opens the eyes and inflames the heart»

Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire series

«A fascinatingly rich setting . . . Fajardo-Anstine is brilliant at evoking the everyday resilience of people carrying centuries of history in their souls . . . Woman of Light achieves something very satisfying as a soapy, immersive saga - a feat of old-school storytelling»

The Observer

«With a single phrase, line of dialogue, description, Fajardo-Anstine has the power to accurately express the joy and sadness in a person's life, their history, how the world comes into contact with us, and how we come into contact with the world. . . . Captivating»

Mieko Kawakami, author of Breasts and Eggs

«[A] bewitching debut novel»

BBC's History magazine

«This novel is indelible, and shines its big light on the Lopez family so brightly that I could draw a map of their breath. . . . An absolutely glorious novel»

Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here

«A rare and wondrous kind of novel that assembles the universe from mere words, whose unforgettable characters haunt like long shadows in the southwestern light»

Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success