Queen of The Mountain - Reception

Reception

The New York Times wrote,

Tess Goell was the kind of American heroine that seemed to exist only in 1930s movies, played by

Katharine Hepburn or Rosalind Russell. They were women bravely striding into what was largely believed to be a man's world — flying planes, battling city hall, working in formerly all-male offices or newsrooms. Goell strode into archaeology, a divorced, hearing-impaired Jewish woman amid Muslims

in southern Turkey.

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