Critical Praise

"a champagne toast to the enduring rituals of the heart. . . I think it is rare for a contemporary novelist to write on the subject of love without substituting hollowness and witty cynicism for larger complexities, and whose tender pokes at the traditions and rituals associated with marital bliss implicate the reader right along with the characters. It's also refreshing to have characters who talk in the idiom of real people, and not like actors trading snappy TV sitcom witticisms. What could have been plot soup in the hands of a lesser writer is transformed into a lovely evocation of one of the greatest human mysteries: romantic love and the desire to connect in what many would argue is an outdated institution. Ansay shows with fluid and graceful prose the uncharted paths of ordinary flawed human hearts enacting an age-old ritual. "

——Alyce Miller, The Chicago Tribune