Critical Praise

"Maggie's hopes and fears, as well as those of Isabel, estranged daughter of the island's revolutionary leader, are intimately revealed, allowing us to feel the isolation and desperation that both women experience. "

——Library Journal

"In House ArrestMorris weaves a taut story that will haunt readers. "

——Anne Morris, Fort Worth Star—Telegram

"House Arrest explores some of the best and worst of being a woman: Morris makes us feel the allure of female friendship, its multilevel complexity and resonance; she also probes the way women are imprisoned by men and possibly even societies designed by men. "

——Andy Solomon, San Francisco Chronicle

" [Morris's] writing is filled with a sense of how relationships are perpetually mismatched, of how the still zone of indecision is somehow at the heart of life, and how travel can be at once numbing and revelatory. "

——James Saynor, The New York Times Book Review

"Morris is extremely good at evoking exotic claustrophobia . . . "

——New Yorker