The Wasp Eater has an uncanny precision about love and forgiveness. It is one of the best narratives I have ever read about those who are unforgiven, and the effect of this refusal on a child. —Charles Baxter

This spare, meticulous novel opens out like a poem, its deceptively casual images bearing a universe of weight. —The New York Times Book Review

The Wasp Eater is superb. Such perfection of tone, such clarity of emotion, such spare and beautiful language. —Andrea Barrett

Lychack simply makes a reader feel the sadness inherent in this whole buinsess of trying to connect with other human beings. —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air