Critical Praise

"Mary Morris inhabits Ivy with an intensity and clarity of vision that makes this a story at once tough, sad, and honest, yet at the same time hauntingly beautiful."

——Stuart Dybek

"Morris's novel joins a rich literary tradition of women who, in the absence of mothers, flounder in their search for womanhood, who are fused to phantoms they fear they will never shake off."

——Barbara Lazear Ascher, The Washington Post Book World

"A haunting tale . . . Ivy Slovak's life is not one a reader will soon forget."

——Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review