Critical Praise

"Ingenious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Achieves a real profundity. "

——The Washington Post Book WOrld

"The kind of deceptively quiet novel that deserves a second, slow reading. An homage to the power of story to move, to awaken and even to transform."

——The Plain Dealer

"Gentle, reserved, graceful. . . . Wolff again proves himself to be a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions."

——Los Angeles Times

"Ingenious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Achieves a real profundity. "

——The Boston Globe