‘2015 is shaping up to be a top year for books. Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau, scheduled for March, is a beautiful dissection of a marriage in crisis and a modern-day Anna Karenina tale.’ Glamour Magazine

‘I was mesmerized by this book. Hausfrau creates a complete, engrossing, and particular world where nothing is as easy as it should be, according to the hopeful stories we tell ourselves. It’s a corrective novel, taking character, destiny, and our choices as seriously as a novelist can.’ — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

‘The ghost of Anna Karenina haunts the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut, Hausfrau, about an American in Zürich with the perfect husband, perfect sons and perfect home; but she is far from the perfect wife.’—Harper’s Bazaar

‘A racy mix of Gone Girl and 50 Shades’ — Grazia

‘That idea of the home as an oppressive rather than welcoming place forms a common thread through all these novels, most chillingly in Essbaum’s Hausfrau, in which the depressed Anna drifts through her affluent Swiss life like a less vivacious Emma Bovary, destroying her life one small misstep at a time.’ — The Observer