PositiveThe Washington Post...in Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time, a compassionate treatise on how society judges parents, how parents judge themselves and how desperation sometimes causes otherwise rational people to choose irrational lives ... Harmony has a strong plot moved forward by Iris’s keen observations. If the story is largely predictable, it sometimes zags just when you expect it to zig ... It’s in Alexandra’s chapters that we find the soul of this novel. Here, Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose, someone whose wisdom parents and their judges should heed.
