Areas of Special Significance

Heidi Mittun-Kjos has written a book that is light-footed, but leaves a deep impression – physically, mentally and emotionally.

Areas of Special Significance is an entertaining and dependable novel about how the fits and starts of childhood can go on in someone whose feet are never firmly planted on the ground. As a writer, Mittun-Kjos is fine, smart and funny and she lets her characters emerge at their own pace.

On the whole, it seems as though there is a growing distance between Ada and the rest of the family, but the process is imperceptible, and for this particular reader it is like seeing the moon move across the sky: One sees that it has happened, but not that it is happening. For the author to achieve this is a great accomplishment, and readers are definitely given the sense of being let in on reality and truth while it is unfolding.

Now that she is debuting with her novel Areas of Special Significance, Heidi Mittun-Kjos is a new star in the constellation of authors.

Heidi Mittun-Kjos hits our present age on the head with a superb naturalness … Kjos has written a novel that makes biblical references, long-distance running and contemporary analysis to add up to greater than the sum of its parts.