Sitting Practice: A Novel

Adderson achieves a remarkable effect with her prose. Its clarity is so overwhelming that it becomes intoxicating... Adderson has done a terrific job in Iliana by showing how the wheelchair is not the person. Globe & Mail

Sitting Practice charms... with its exuberant, generous take on life and love. National Post

...compulsively readable... Adderson's prose is characterized by fierce intelligence, razor-sharp wit and wry omniscience. She writes with a tone of subdued mirth or bemused wisdom that lends the book both immediacy and intimacy. Vancouver Sun

...a must-read. Winnipeg Free Press

Adderson is a shrewd writer, and she gets exactly right the many sadnesses that affect Iliana and Ross's lives. The Edmonton Journal

...a fine treatment of a difficult subject and a rewarding read. Times-Colonist

The balance of trivial and profound is almost Zenlike: life includes everything... This is a writer with all the talents required to keep on delivering. Quill & Quire

The beauty of Sitting Practice lies in its conviction that true love can endure the inendurable...[Adderson's] book, rich in healthy empathy, leaves us with the sobering realization that no partnership remains forever equal. The Gazette, Montreal

...a good novel and an unusual one, an impressive accomplishment from another of the country's talented young writers. London Free Press

This book... is not a weepy tear-jerker. Nor is it a heart-wrenching story of the human spirit overcoming adversity. Instead, it's a smart, funny look at how events can change people and relationships. Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg

Caroline Adderson crafts a story that is both powerful and delicate at the same time. North Shore News

Sitting Practice is far from bleak. The writing is whip-smart and amusing. Bookworld

... Adderson's book is serious, unsentimental, and poignant in its preference over snappy melodramatic plotting and filled with fresh, acute and moving moments...There are no quotation marks hovering over these characters; they're refreshingly unrepresentative, totally specific, memorable. CD Syndicated