“One reads The Manikin in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty.” —Newsday

“Scott's prose is sensitive and beautifully crafted. She writes with subtlety, compassion and humor, and her characters are both eminently human and touched with magic and mystery.” —The Washington Post Book World

“The wit, the magical prose and the daring devices of Scott's writing create an enchantment....Readers of The Manikin will remember Scott's novel as a landscape of time, and will remember that her soundings of the depth of our natures are as accurate and revealing as Thoreau's measurements of Walden Pond.” —The Nation