Aviv’s writing also defies a fixed point of view. She moves effortlessly between reporting on events in one moment and entering the inner lives of her subjects the next, as though you were reading a short story told in the third person ... No one who reads Aviv’s book will ever read Alice Munro in the same way again, but they may read her, as I did, with a strange new curiosity.
Sharp ... Aviv is an incisive and compassionate chronicler, just as capable of explaining hard science and practicing shoe-leather journalism as she is of accounting for more enigmatic elements, such as the impact of a mother’s experience with stillbirth on her surviving children. Readers will be impressed.
