RaveNew York Review of BooksSearing ... Wakefield’s narrative is a perfect fit for Moore. The author of seven novels and four works of nonfiction, she typically writes of the past with quiet insight through the eyes of women who are often liminal figures, though not, of course, to themselves ... Moore’s narration is detached, spare, often eloquent in its terseness, and almost without affect ... The details are tartly precise. So are her striking observations, offered without sentimentality or fanfare ... Beautifully crafted.
