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“Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel.” New York Times
“Lorrie Moore distills, in less than two hundred pages, the vacillating pleasures and pains of the sisterly love between girls as well as the way such a formative friendship reverberates through the years—even after that relationship has long since ended.” O, The Oprah Magazine
“Exquisite…Exhilarting…Balanced adroitly on the fine line between laughter and tears.” Chicago Tribune
“The extraordinarily talented Lorrie Moore presents the lives of Sils and Berie and the atmosphere of the upstate town they live in with a subtle, moving, and often outright brilliance.” Los Angeles Times
“This novel is like a hand-painted Russian Easter egg, a Chinese sleeve piece done in blind stitch; painstaking, breathtaking beauty in miniature. [Moore] creates a gorgeous, terrifying picture.” Washington Post Book World
“This is more than a girls’ coming-of-age story…Ms. Moore was always able to make readers laugh out loud. This is the first of her works that can bring them to tears as well.” New York Times Book Review