"One of the many strengths of Bolsterli's writing is her deft handling of the contradictions inherent in her life and history, and in the Delta itself. current members of the family, like many of their fellow Southerners, freely admit to romanticizing times past that were grueling and often tragic for those who lived through them. Like many white Southerners she is both proud and ashamed of what has made her. She fiercely loves the farm but is haunted by the pain of knowing it couldn't have existed without the systematic exploitation of slaves and their descendants, some of whom are driving tractors in the Delta today."
--Arkansas Review, April 2009
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