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“Impressive...McDermott writes with assurance and skill, and has created a fascinatingly prismatic story.”—Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
“McDermott is an enormously skilled and assured writer who transforms the ordinary into something resonant and magical.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Alice McDermott’s novels are like family albums, each scene hazy with the yellow light of history, nostalgic as faded Polaroids.”—San Francisco Examiner
“Splendid...this is nothing less than a brilliant first novel.”—Virginia Quarterly Review




