Book Reviews
[A]n exquisitely written investigation of grief and atonement, and an elegy for a Jewish family bound together by tradition and tribe.
Publishers Weekly
Poliner demonstrates how a tragic accident shatters...families.... This elegant novel is for readers who enjoy the depiction of complicated family dynamics and those who believe that people will be able to overcome tragic events. —Andrea Kempf, formerly with Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, KS
Library Journal
(Starred review.) Molly's coming-of-age is the delicate connective tissue that binds together the novel's chronologically fragmented episodes.... Beautifully written, stringently unsentimental, and yet tender in its empathy for the perennial human conflict between service and self.
Kirkus Reviews
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