RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewHadley’s spell — and she is a spellbinding writer — derives its power from the way she keeps the uncanny almost precisely counterbalanced with the commonplace. No, that’s wrong: It’s the way she discloses the uncanny within all that is commonplace ... These pages are rife with finely jarring details and apparently minor trespasses that turn out to reverberate ... Turning things inside out, tipping them upside down, placing mismatched objects side by side, nesting harm within harmlessness and vice versa: All this Hadley does to great and various effect, yielding humor here and sorrow there, serving up the bitter along with the delicious.
