Maria, Maria

Quotes

“Read the first three pages of this novel. You will wonder if the momentum can possibly be sustained, if the fire started at the opening can burn all the way to the end. The answer is yes on both counts.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Whistler

“I came up from these cold waters gasping for air. So lush, vivid and gorgeous that I was plunged into another place and time, and did not want to leave. A wonderfully assured debut. I loved it.”—Charlotte McConaghy, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Dark Shore

“Beautiful, compelling, and emotionally convincing on every page . . . This novel broke my heart and handed it back to me whole, and stronger.”—Patrick Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of Buckeye

“Maria, Maria is a wondrous novel; I completely lost myself inside its pages. The dazzling prose and vivid, evocative storytelling made me think of Elena Ferrante—it’s that good. I adored it.”—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country

“Maria, Maria is a gorgeous joy of a novel about the complicated ways in which we love one another, often from unthinkable distances. I cannot believe this is Jennifer Galvão’s first book; it’s a tremendous achievement.”—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful

“A transporting, romantic, immensely generous novel about love in its many forms. Jennifer Galvão is a writer of the highest order, one to be spoken of alongside Amy Bloom and Colm Tóibín and Maggie Shipstead, and her debut, Maria, Maria is simply a marvel.”—Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street

“I loved this beautiful, sensuous novel. It is a world suspended in time, rich with scents, colors, and the agonies and ecstasies of longing.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

“Maria, Maria is that rare gem: a debut novel that feels like a classic, at once tender, tragic, and transcendent. Galvão is a luminous new talent.”—Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and The Welsh Girl

“Now more than ever I rejoice when I encounter novels that draw us completely out of the world and into their pages. This is one. Tender, sensual, thrilling—simply exquisite.”—Sara Collins, Costa Book Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton

“An extraordinary depiction of the many dimensions of love and the ways women bend but do not break, and it stunned me on every page. Jennifer Galvão has done something remarkable here: She has made a world.”—Julie Buntin, author of Famous Men and Marlena

“Debut novelist Galvão has created characters who are at once vibrantly real and larger than life, trapped in the mythic crosshairs of separation, secrecy, and the dangers of the sea. The letters are brilliantly done, the escalation of suspense masterful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“First-time novelist Galvão . . . adroitly explores the trio’s complicated emotions and dilemmas and the precarity of their love . . . A spellbinding, splendidly original tale of two very different places; of guilt, joy, and misery; the hard-pressed solidarity of a ‘deranged sisterhood;’ and nature’s power over all.”—Booklist, starred review