Critical Praise

"Absorbing reading throughout. . . . Robb Forman Dew is one of our premier chroniclers of the everyday."

——Robert Cohen, Los Angeles Times

"One of Robb Forman Dew's strengths as a novelist, besides her musician's ear for dialogue, is an ability to show the contradictory, subtle impulses that become magnified in all directions in a domestic setting....Dew is even better here at tracking the minute movements of each character toward and away from the others in bravura scenes that are painful as well as deeply funny."

——Rebecca Radner, San Francisco Chronicle

"Compelling . . . An emotionally precise novel. . . . An extraordinary tale of how self-identity emerges from the bonds of family."

——Kirkus Reviews