RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteThe [pleasures] to be gained from investment in this book — and while it is not a long novel, it does take a certain kind of emotional investment — are mostly quiet. They are contemplative. The craft of this novel is something approaching immaculate ... The focus of the storytelling remains close, lightened — if that is the word — occasionally by moments of stunning description ... There is beauty here. But the novel is not light ... An achievement. It deserves praise. It deserves study. It deserves to be read, and sat with, and thought about.
