Critical Praise

"The story brims with vivid pictures of day-to-day family life, revealed largely through dialogue, which Phillips unerringly captures with consummate authenticity. "

——Booklist

"A gorgeous novel...With gentle insight and uncanny feeling, [she] brings [her] fascinating, disparate characters to brilliant, memorable life. "

——Elle

"A passionate but indirect evocation of loss . . . Phillips concentrates on the day-to-day details of ordinary existence suddenly afflicted with extraordinaray pressures and the conflicting tugs of joy and grief. "

——Time