“Catboat Road is sheer delight. In this sure-footed debut, Kate Rounds has given us a breezy comedy with darker undertones. The members of her post-post-modern family simply cannot stop themselves from bellyflopping, time and again, right into the social and emotional perils of smalltown life. Creating chaos, riling a slightly demented populace, they are living proof that tripping over an obstacle is yet another way of surmounting it. Craziness triumphs, but so does tenderness. I laughed out loud. I even shed a tear or two. Rounds tells us that 1) we spend too much time tilting at windmills; 2) love is both ridiculous and possible; and 3) we all need each other—desperately, painfully, laughably—much more than we dare to imagine.”

— Jenifer Levin, author of The Sea of Light