Critical Praise

"Ms. Harrison writes with such assurance...that readers are slowly but surely induced to succumb to the spell of her hot house world."

——Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Inventive, provocative, and entertaining."

——Booklist

"[A] deeply humane novel."

——Wall Street Journal

"This is her best work to date, an intricately and elegantly constructed narrative about intersections of character and fate, history and chance, and the ironic, tragic fulfillment of hearts' desires."

——Publishers Weekly

"The Binding Chair is a resonant, elaborately constructed novel, rich in incident, bustlingly peopled, often surprisingly funny. It is also a heartening sign of literary risk-taking."

——New York Times Book Review