Praise for Cleaning House

“Bright, deft, knowing, and wickedly funny: a dissection of an American marriage that is only too convincing.” (Joyce Carol Oates)

“In this dazzling debut, Hayfield proves herself a novelist of major talent. With not one false detail and with stunning, acute imagery that resonates on many levels, Hayfield writes about a suburban housewife who both represents and transcends any of the breed we have heretofore encountered. … She is awesomely good. A writer to watch.” (Publishers Weekly)

“… a fresh, lively look into the suburban life of young Linda. It might seem there were no new fields to plow in the genre of the frustrated housewife, but Nancy Hayfield’s wildly funny first novel proves this untrue on the first page.” (New York Time Book Review)

“Cleaning House is unusual in that it successfully combines the stomach-clenching realism of books about housewives in the suburbs with the irony of coming-of-age stories. There is a clear-headed spunkiness to the writing that makes this novel a tantalizing debut.” (Atlantic Monthly)

“Taut, free-form style and vivid imagery … mark this eloquent first novel.” (Los Angeles Times)

“… a sharply written, witty and sophisticated work … a strong first novel.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)