"An ambitious work of great scope and power. While the book’s arresting subject matter makes it very much a story of today, the narrative transcends its era. The book is a searing exploration of the ways in which people value and degrade one another, and of how moments of impulse and whim, rather than carefully reasoned action, can change the course of our lives.”
— Mary Rodgers, LA Review of Books
“Enthralling crime novel […] skillful storytelling.”
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Bakalar does not shy away from darkness[…] A novel about the power of language to estrange and, occasionally, connect.”
— Ania Ready, TLS
“A thrilling story of exploitation and deceit, Children of Our Age is a powerful look at the immigrant experience.”
— World Literature Today
“A.M.Bakalar eloquently exposes the tragic face of the immigrant experience; and this powerful story of exploited hope, perverse ambition and – surprisingly – redemption is one you will not forget. It is a tale for our time.”
— William Brodrick,
CWA Gold Dagger winner
“A tense and gripping thriller”
— Marina Lewycka,
long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction
