RaveThe Los Angeles Times... a book that combines eclectic minutia with a laser-like narrative of a family on the edge of dissolution ... deals with motherhood in an honest, unsentimental way ... Offill\'s novel adds to the growing literature of female abandonment ... I won\'t give away the end of this jewel of a book, a novel as funny, honest and beguiling as any I have read. Suffice to say that, while a broken marriage threatens and fragments the wife\'s identity, it also brings her into a more complex understanding of the fragility and holiness of her long-term commitment.
