RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewKauffman gives us vignettes rather than the wide view. Each scene has its own arc ... The joy in this book is something to admire deeply ... The delights aren’t cheap, either: Kauffman loves them enough to bestow upon them the genuine, radiant, quiet, don’t blink kind of happiness. She shows us there is room in a novel — as in the heart — for everyone.
Sarah Braunstein
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewBracing ... Braunstein fashions a red-hot poker that skewers the limits of the white imagination ... Sharp-witted, ravishing.
Melinda Moustakis
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewEngrossing ... Moustakis’s language is spare and exquisite, tough and lovely. The sentences build on themselves, becoming expansive and staggering in their sweep ... Moustakis finds magnificence in the smallness.
Elena Ferrante
RaveO, the Oprah MagazineFerrante is preternaturally attuned to the nitty-gritty of girlhood, territory she explored in her Neapolitan novels. What also remains true here: The Lying Life of Adults affirms that Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves.
