
Best Books of 2010 (NPR)… Best Books of Summer (TIME, Entertainment Weekly, TimeOut Chicago)… New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice… McSweeney’s Recommends… Powell’s “Writers to Watch”…
“Beautiful, brainy, offbeat… Baldwin shows steadying compassion and literary flair in the dissection of miseries.” -Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-)
“A masterful study of love, loss, and self-discovery… Baldwin has truly found his footing in this book… At turns revelatory, heartbreaking, and tender.” - The Daily Beast
“A stunning debut… You Lost Me There is, finally, a wise book, the kind that eludes many authors twice Baldwin’s age. Profound, affecting, and true.” - National Public Radio
“In showing just how complicated memory can be, Baldwin elegantly explores how even the most analytic of minds can be flummoxed by human emotion.” - New York Observer
“Memory is a trickster, a scamp, a rogue. And, as Baldwin demonstrates in his novel, it can be a heartbreaker too.” - Chicago Tribune
“Baldwin’s prose is wise and nimble, clever without being self-conscious, true to the myriad voices of his characters…. Moving and genuine.” -Washington Post
“In fiction as in life, you can’t save people from themselves. Although that never keeps anyone from trying, as Rosecrans Baldwin’s amiable first novel demonstrates.” - New York Times Book Review
“Immensely readable and fascinating.” - Virginia Free Lance-Star
“A mature look at relationships and memory.” - The Los Angeles Times
“Grief is good in You Lost Me There.” - Newsday
“Even skeptical readers can be won over by Baldwin’s assured take on the truth that - regardless of how old we are - we are all searching to be understood and loved.” - Raleigh News & Observer
“Baldwin has managed to take big themes - the notion of a couple’s shared history and the skewed, fickle nature of memory - and cast them into a funny, sad, insightful narrative.” - Portland Press Herald
“Explosively good… Baldwin’s story is an elegant double helix in the nature of The GoldBug Variations.” - Open Letters Monthly
“It’s a bright moment for any reader of contemporary American literature when they discover a debut novel as self-assured, as well-disciplined, as You Lost Me There.” - Three Guys One Book
“Witty, profound, and heartbreaking… Easily one of my favorite books of the year.” - Largehearted Boy
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