A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future.
Smart, reflective ... For the first third of the book or so, I stumbled over the novel’s execution. Clumsy prose weakens the story as a whole ... But as relationships complicate and deepen, and as the intensity ratchets up, all stylistic inconsistencies fall away. Silverman clearly has an exceptional talent for dramatic tension.
Silverman constructs an intricate, clever plot that braids together two separate stories ... Though the novel is a little slow to get off the ground and might have benefited from being 50 pages shorter, eventually it gathers unstoppable force as it moves toward a dramatic denouement that offers no easy conclusions.
Silverman... excels at bringing the lives of her disparate characters into focus. Atmospheric and profound, Silverman’s novel of defiance and acceptance shimmers with passion, repressed and unbridled.
