"I just read your book "A Cow for the Holy Spirit". If the quest of an artist is the creation of an emotional impact, I believe you have excelled at that end." Susan Hasselberger (Rome, Italy)
"In this book, Rose Silva King successfully portrays a rural boy from the Azores who becomes a man as an immigrant in California's dairy country. The cow he offers every year to the festa is the sacrificial aimal which will ensure that the ancestral spirit of Azorean generosity and communal sharing will go on in this new and vast land." Prof.José Luis da Silva
"The best part of author Rose Silva King's book A Cow for the Holy Spirit is the well written journey of an immigrant from the Azores to California...It is a story of promise, which took the man from his parents to a new land and a new life."Writer's Digest-judge's commentary
"To read this book is to journey with one or our ancestors. It is to follow a path traveled by many but, up until this point, narrated by few....Thank you Rose Silva King for giving us this rich narrative." Lúcia de Fátima Soares Portuguese Tribune
"This well-crafted novella is a significant contribution to the incipient fictional representation of the Portuguese-Azorean presence in California....The Azorean-American community of California warmly welcomes and salutes the author’s pioneering work of fiction." Dr. Heraldo G. Da Silva Professor Emeritus San Jose State University, California