Acclaim for Jane Mendelsohn’s
I Was Amelia Earhart

“A poetic meditation on freedom and love and flight [that] stands on its own as a powerfully imagined work of fiction.… Ms. Mendelsohn invests her story with the force of fable.”

—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Haunting and delicate.… Mendelsohn’s universe is a sensuous and ethereal one.… Her novel is drenched in visual effects [which] continue to dance before the retina after one has read them.”

—The New Yorker

“A tantalizing fictional biography of Amelia Earhart … slim and idiosyncratic as its heroine.… The pleasures of reading this book are many.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

“Mendelsohn’s rhapsodic language and shimmering, dreamlike imagery will carry readers along on her voyage into the many mysteries this work contains.… A sensual, intoxicating experience.”

—Louisville Courier-Journal

“Conveys a sense of the sheer wonder of flying.… I Was Amelia Earhart contains an alluring element of fantasy for anyone feeling closed in by life. The book is about escape.”

—USA Today

“Compelling.… You can’t help admiring the boldness of a novelist who would make fiction of a legend.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Vividly imagined and complex.… A soaring prose meditation.”

—Chicago Tribune

“Exciting.… It’s testimony to the power of the Earhart myth, and to Mendelsohn’s sparkling prose, that the reader is quickly enraptured.… This is entertainment of a high order.”

—Lexington Herald-Leader

“Mendelsohn [is] an exquisite crafter of prose.… Brilliant … is not too strong a word to describe what Mendelsohn has done.… Her novel will hold you spellbound.”

—Newark Sunday Star-Ledger

“Fascinating.… The prose soars with lightness and imagination.”

—Winston-Salem Journal

“Lush [and] mesmerizing … Mendelsohn gives us not so much a stream of consciousness as a stream of dreamlike images to float on.”

—Hartford Courant

“Not to be missed … an immediately addicting book.”

—Harper’s Bazaar

“Reads like a kind of dream.… Mendelsohn delivers a fantasy from deep within Earhart’s consciousness.”

—Denver Post

“Sparely written, almost visionary … a paean to the ultimate escape.”

—The Christian Science Monitor

“Elegant and sensuously beautiful.… A psychologically rich portrait of a highly unusual woman.”

—Booklist