"Reader, be humble, You are about to read greatness. You are about to cry, to rejoice. You are about to read a story that lifts our mortal lives into lamentation and wisdom and rapture and love. Death, where is thy sting?" -- Robert Kroetsch, author of The Man from the Creeks "Here is love and grief and coming through. Rosemary Nixon is unflinching and clear-eyed, a brave stylist who does what the very best writers always do -- she sees with her heart. Kalila is a gift." -- Lisa Moore, author of February " Kalila is fearless. Nixon's sentences are taut: her chapters snap with vivid crispness.

With never a wasted word, nor superfluous embellishment, the story pulls with tension and tenderness, and jabs the reader in a deep and terribly human vein." -- Steven Ross-Smith, author of Fluttertongue 5: Everything Appears to Shine with Mossy Splendour.