"Something in this book...suggests the work of Joseph Conrad. A more powerful comparison, in terms of the plumbing of the depths of familial transgression and the appalling revisiting of the past upon the present, might be with William Faulkner." --Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review

"An emotionally stunning, artistically satisfying novel...The pace races at a blistering pitch, yet not so fast that one escapes thinking about the nature of guilt and innocence and of love." --Beverly Langer, San Francisco Chronicle