RaveThe San Francisco ChronicleNatalia\'s story seems to function as little more than a thin tissue connecting the real organs of the book, the story of the deathless man and the story of the tiger\'s wife...These stories - pulsing with dark life - are clearly the book\'s reason for being, and better reasons would be hard to come by … These two stories twist around each other in complicated knots, trading characters and settings, gliding in and out of Natalia\'s narrative as smooth and vibrant as Turkish silks. Together they function to raise fascinating questions about the meaning of adulthood given that, really, we are all helpless as children, at the mercy of governments, of our neighbors, of chance, given how quickly, even eagerly, confusion and fear become hatred, become evil doings.
