“What an extraordinary, razor-sharp, utterly original and gripping voice. Sara Lippmann's Lech is at once a painstakingly drawn exploration of claustrophobia, exploitation, predation, and place, and a primal howl of rage let loose in the wind. Told in unflinching prose and with searing poetic intensity Lech burns with all the fury and tenderness of an open wound.”
– Catherine Chung, author of The Tenth Muse

"Lech is the ambitious debut novel of an excellent new prose stylist."
– The Millions

“A funny, brutal, symphonic novel from a writer with intensity and authority to spare. The world of Lech is as vivid, as wild, and as shockingly familiar as life itself, but way more interesting and way better told.”
– Elisa Albert, author of After Birth

"Lippmann's amiable writing makes for great company."
– Publishers Weekly

“Lech takes place over a single summer in the Catskills, but it’s far bigger than that. Sara Lippmann is finely attuned to the cultural, political, and religious tensions that arise between the vacationers and the locals, between the haves and the have-nots. And, wow, those sentences!  Lippmann writes like a dream.”
– Joshua Henkin, author of Morningside Heights

"For the right reader, this jigsaw puzzle of a novel will be a pleasure."
– Kirkus Reviews

“Sara Lippmann's novel Lech is quilted together with loose stitching, holding the sensual with the grotesque, the intimate with the alienated, the paratactic with the full, and on and on. It is masterfully composed.”
– Seth Rogoff, author of Thin Rising Vapors

“Sara Lippmann's Lech is a superb Jewish gothic, an expertly pitched polyvocal tale of family, loss, and redemption. By turns funny, beautiful, lewd and heartbreaking, Lippmann delivers a literary performance with all the timing and energy of a great Borscht Belt comic.”
– Adam O’Fallon Price, author of The Hotel Neversink