“Maisel cul­ti­vates a sim­ple, almost quaint style and then grad­u­ally shifts the mood, slip­ping in a pre­mon­i­tory detail, alter­ing an opin­ion; before we know it, the novel is accel­er­at­ing toward its tragic con­clu­sion. It is a plea­sure to read a novel writ­ten so care­fully, one in which the author has com­plete con­trol of every detail and ges­ture, each turn of the plot. This is an engross­ing, elo­quent book.” – San Fran­cisco Chronicle

“The tan­gled webs of German/Jewish racism in a post­war Alsa­t­ian fam­ily and a son’s con­fused and vio­lent rela­tion­ship with his dom­i­neer­ing and prej­u­diced father draw read­ers into Eric Maisel’s The Black­birds of Mul­house. Ten­sions are intro­duced and built upon until the final, tragic yet sur­pris­ing con­clu­sion, mak­ing The Black­birds of Mul­house a psy­cho­log­i­cal drama not eas­ily for­got­ten.” – Mid­west Book Review

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