Heidi Ann Smith's unflinching novel viscerally tracks the ways trauma can break our contract with language, how it can hybridize hearts and mouths, and how our tongues might, in the end, fork to speak it all: revelatory, plural, here. The Clara Ann Burns Story, through text and image, offers a map by which to read the geographic/familial underpinnings of our emotional and physical bodies so that we might articulate our own hermeneutic of triumph. --Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

The Clara Ann Burns Story sends an inspirational message of strength of the human spirit. A person has the ability to leave their dark past and look forward to a better tomorrow. --Pacific Book Review

Smith's creative approach to this story of abuse achieves the aim of sharing an abused little girl s story, with all of the horror and terror that entails, in a format that also offers beauty. --IP Book Reviewers