RaveThe Chicago TribuneAnthony Marra provides such a humming engine for his story, and such a surprisingly intricate path that even the squeamish will find themselves compelled to continue on the rough ride. Things happen in this novel … Everyone must always be inventive to survive, never more so than in their varied uses of hope and memory to recall both their own winding narratives and those who are gone. Hope and memory, after all, are the only things truly left in their control … Marra's true mastery, however, is most evident in his narrative structure. He casts his characters back and forth through time.
