Extraordinary candor and tenderness ... The family that initially felt so shiny and self-contained gives way to individual stories that butt up against one another at skewed angles. It’s not confusing; it’s eye-opening ... Right down to its final moments, Huneven casually offers up little revelations that crunch as sweet and tart as pomegranate seeds.
Fans of Anne Tyler will enjoy Huneven’s strong sense of place, quirky menagerie of characters, and the intriguing, relevant issues the Samuelson family navigates through chapters of their life together.
his transcendent novel has all the virtues associated with Huneven: attention to detail and a glimpse at how complicated the very act of living is ... Huneven hits it out of the ballpark again.
