Jane Yager, The Times Literary Supplement

“Kampmann and Posten write gorgeous sentences, lavishing descriptive attention on the light cast on bird feathers, the brass balustrades of a Budapest hotel, ‘a sea bright as a blast furnace’ . . . The most vivid and memorable character is the oil platform itself. Kampmann has an astonishing command of the details of life on an oil rig, and High as the Waters Rise can be read as oblique climate fiction . . . Kampmann brilliantly conveys the industry’s reckless disregard for human life. The relationships she portrays best are not of friendship, love or family, but those between abusive systems and the people whose lives they extract, consume and wantonly discard.”