The Basket Maker

“The Basket Maker is an engaging first novel – complex, evocative, heartfelt, keen, amusing, sad — and its speakers manage to be both tough and tender, wise and wide-eyed, all at the same time.“
Kent Haruf, author of PLAINSONG

“Diversely written…, blowing many directions at once, rich with oddities, certainty and bewilderment, and irrefutably beautiful.“
Craig Childs, author of SOUL OF NOWHERE and THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF WATER

“I was profoundly moved to compassion for the wounds, real and perceived, each of us seeks to overcome.“
Ron Chapman, Straight to the Heart: Radio Conversations, KUNM 89.9 FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico

“It’s a privilege to read such an evocative, beautifully-crafted novel.“
Julie Mars, author of THE SECRET KEEPERS

“Sometimes whimsical, sometimes starkly realistic, always psychologically insightful, The Basket Maker would have us all construct for ourselves a belief system that affirms our uniqueness. In this hopeful novel, community nurtures children when family fails, and the reader is treated to an original vision of the American West. Congratulations Kate Niles!“
Sena Jeter Naslund, author of FOUR SPIRITS and AHAB’S WIFE