From The Globe and Mail:

"What a wordsmith! What a work of depth and breadth! What a world newcomer Cathy Marie Buchanan brings to propulsively glittering and gorgeous life in The Day the Falls Stood Still. Few first novels exhibit the mastery, maturity and majesty of Buchanan's riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding tale interwoven with guts, anguish and glory guaranteed to remain in readers' minds long after they've crossed its devastating finish line."

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From USA Today:

"The Day the Falls Stood Still shares themes with Joyce Carol Oates' The Falls (Niagara-style suicide haunts both) and Lauren Belfer's City of Light (power corrupts, hydroelectric power corrupts absolutely). But Stood Still stands on its own elegant prose and the vibrant voice of its narrator, Bess Heath."

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From the National Post:

"Halfway through The Day the Falls Stood Still, a first novel by Toronto author Cathy Marie Buchanan, I thought it might be a worthy companion to Timothy Findley's First World War novel, The Wars -- a sort of distaff variation on themes of violence and love. By the time I was through, though, I realized that would do it a disservice. In writerly terms, it is a better novel than The Wars -- more convincing, less grandiloquent. And its reach is both broader and deeper."

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