Walbert has once again written a novel that feels both timeless and timely: it is essential reading for the world we find ourselves in today. National Book Award nominated Kate Walbert’s novel A Short History of Women was hailed by critics as a feminist masterpiece, and was reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. Her novel The Sunken Cathedral, whose characters grapple with, among many other things, climate change, was praised as “an emotionally resonant story of people caught in a time of unease and change.