RaveThe Washington Independent Review of BooksFor several years, the women are out of touch until Lee reappears, convincing Viv to take one last road trip, this time to find Lee’s father’s lost music tapes. This adventure, with numerous forays into the past, forms The Sun in Your Eyes’ plotline ...insights into each woman and their relationship, fraught with secrets and deception, as well as love and support, is the central conceit of the novel ...the more refreshing aspects of the book is the way it avoids moralizing, presenting the women’s less-attractive qualities — such as envy and self-involvement — as humanizing rather than distancing ...is often flat-out funny, too, with a skewering wit and keen attention to the outer details and character flaws that shape the characters ... It’s a complex journey, but one a reader will want to make.
