Xie...writes about these interactions viscerally and with warmth ... Xie explores how touch, however naturally or artificially created, can elicit closeness ... While some lines spin you around...much of Holding Pattern is exquisite and wise.
Xie is a deft chronicler of the ways power shifts between people. What emerges is a novel offering a lucid examination of a range of relationships: those between a mother and daughter, old friends, and more passing acquaintances. An engaging and heartwarming story.
