acclaim for The Forgotten Island

"Sasha Troyan's The Forgotten Island, like her mesmerizing first novel, Angels in the Morning, pulses with dark undercurrents of familial love and betrayal, sisterly mysteries and rites, louche neighbors and secretive houseguests—here assembled in plenary summer on a lush island off the Italian coast, where the sisters' youthful games set the stage for potent dangers and unspeakable deeds."
—Elle

"A fantastic book. Brilliant and beautiful and fresh with its wondering child's eyes and frightening with its terribly grown-up, knowing heart. I was enchanted and deliciously spooked."
—Andrea Ashworth, author of Once in a House on Fire.

"Troyan has a special gift for inhabiting her young protagonist so thoroughly as to transport the reader back to the sensual, fraught, myopic realm of childhood. The Forgotten Island is a dream landscape, incantatory, charmed, replete with the gorgeous terrors of what dreams reveal and the haunting way they last."
—Antonya Nelson, author of Talking in Bed and Female Trouble


"The Forgotten Island is a beautifully rendered story of paradise lost, of everyday evil, and of childhood betrayed. Sasha Troyan is a fearless and heartbreaking writer."
—Jean Thompson, author of City Boy and Who Do You Love