MixedThe Minneapolis Star TribuneThis novel asks some difficult questions...Fridlund offers only her story in answer to these queries, and the effect is profound and disturbing. And surely it’s interesting to see these disparate lives unfolding in such proximity. The book’s peculiarity is its own reward. For all of this, the novel excels ... Because Patra’s and Leo’s faith is foreign to Linda, it remains mostly foreign to the reader as well, a fact that left me wishing the novel had investigated more directly Leo’s hold on his kin. The book also can’t quite decide whether it’s a literary novel or a thriller, and so in a sense fails at being either ... All of which is unfortunate, as this novel has so much else to offer, not the least a tragedy of Shakespearean scope.
