Critical Praise

Transfixing ... Montero's unromantic vision and crisp pace strike a harmonious balance with the lushness of the background detail."

——New York Times Book Review

"A work of enormous beauty, violence, and unsentimental grace…Montero writes with fire and acid."

——The Boston Globe

"A dazzling, original fugue on love and extinction."

——The New Yorker

"A novel, rich in metaphor and allusion, that will leave most readers breathless at its final curtain drops."

——Publisher's Weekly