"A literary inquiry into identity and legacy, a gripping mystery---remarkable."—Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times "A thrilling page-turner of a book…Book clubs of America, take note. By Blood is what you should be reading. Ullman is someone we should all be reading."—Ed Siegel, Newsday
"Ullman arranges her players efficiently, expertly. But what astounds is how she binds them to one another….What a cast of master prevaricators she gives us, how far she makes them travel."—Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review
"A mesmerizing tale that probes the very heart of personal identity."—Alice LaPlante, More
"[By Blood] thematically interweaves fate, identity, obsession, and genetics....It’s a multilayered mystery (in the same way that Dostoevsky was a mystery writer)."—Kirkus Reviews
"Extraordinary…Proceeding in bursts of hydraulic prose, By Blood evokes San Francisco in all its stagflation gloom: the erotic danger of its nightlife, the coded nature of its transactions....Riveting."—John Freeman, The Boston Globe
