Review: Anchorage Daily News
“Dark but somehow still quite funny […] As it entertains, it also explores human nature and something about what draws people to Alaska.”
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Review: New Zealand Listener
[A] chimerical yet solemn debut […] this novels beautifully written and there is a strange authenticity to Mira’s dilemma: a young woman clinging to the lustful fantasies of youth, still searching for the true meaning of sleaze.
Review: Radio New Zealand
Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews The Seaplane on Final Approach
The Week: Best novels of 2022
Reviews of the top fiction titles released so far this year—including The Seaplane on Final Approach
Review: The Times Literary Supplement
The Seaplane on Final Approach is a jaunty, perfectly paced and exceptionally well-written coming-of-age story. It is slyly funny, with just the right touch of darkness to take the edge off.
Interview: Authors Carmen Maria Machado And Rebecca Rukeyser On Youth And Sleaze
The writers discuss Rukeyser’s debut novel, The Seaplane on Final Approach, and their long-lasting friendship.
Interview: Rebecca Rukeyser on sleaze, desire and performing Americanness
We spoke with US author Rebecca Rukeyser about her debut novel, The Seaplane on Final Approach, and why she’d like to see more young female perverts…
Interview: Rebecca Rukeyser on Sleaze, Male Rot, and Writing a Horny Novel
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“A set of teenage girls wait out the summer in the wilds of Alaska in THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL APPROACH an impressive debut by German writer Rebecca Rukeyser.”
Review: The Irish Times
“Rukeyser’s assured, elegant prose brings colour and outline to the great outdoors … Her debut novel is part adventure story, party coming of age tale, about a woman on the cusp of adulthood, fully of inchoate longing. If moving a character to a foreign world in order to bring about a transformation is a time-word staple of fiction writers, Rukeyser takes that old trick and flies her reader off to a brave new world.”