Mennonite Brethren Herald
February 2008

In A Feast of Longing, Sarah Klassen’s collection of stories, the longing is – above all – for connection. Read more


Prairie Fire Review of Books
Winter 2008

Throughout A Feast of Longing Klassen writes about her theme with clarity and truthfulness. She writes with the acuity of the keen observer who is comfortable with what she discovers; she writes of happenings overlooked or ignored by most of society. Read More


The Indextrious Reader
November 2, 2007

There is a novel's worth of story in each piece; I was impressed by the quality of the storytelling and the representation of the smallest variations of human emotion. Read More


Globe & Mail
September 15, 2007

Though her characters are the sort frequently overlooked or even scorned, [Sarah] Klassen challenges such mainstream perceptions through very subtle details. Read more


Saskatoon StarPhoenix
August 4, 2007

Poet, critic, and one-time cultural lighthouse T.S. Eliot once famously remarked that the majority of people live lives of quiet desperation. Yes, but occasionally a fictional character will rise out of that quiet desperation and really do something big... Read more


Quill & Quire
June 2007

The stories in Sarah Klassen’s second collection occur at intersections: between youth and age, and between rich and poor in both body and spirit. Read more


Winnipeg Free Press
May 13, 2007

An elderly woman long ago retired from Eaton's, Eastern European immigrants and would-be writers and artists – these are the ordinary people who populate Winnipeg writer Sarah Klassen's extraordinarily insightful landscape. Read more