"A luminous and affecting novel."--The New York Times
"Alice McDermott demonstrates anew that she is a writer in a league all her own."--People
"An exquisitly rendered potrait . . . tales overlap tales in a singsong pattern of Irish-American brogue and family history."--Entertainment Weekly
"An astoundingly beautiful novel about the persistence of love, the perseverance of grief, and all-but-unbearable loneliness, as well as faith, loyalty, and redemption."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Taut and beautifully written . . . Each distinct atom of reality splits under McDermott's artisan hammer and releases a world of wild, lost particles: charm, for example, and others the physicists have not yet invented, such as grief, comedy, even happiness."--Los Angeles Times
"This is fiction as good as it gets."--USA Today
"Haunting . . . mesmerizing . . . McDermott is an enormously skilled and assured writer who transforms the ordinary into something resonant and magical."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[A] rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes."--Time
