Moores characters are lovingly drawn&A truly original voice.Few novelists of recent memory have put our bleak isolation into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel.[Moore] writes with compassion and emotional insight but resists sentimentality&Tender, thoughtful.Moores writing is clear, persuasive, and totally engaging, bringing her characters to life in all their sweet, quirky glory.This is not a novel with a happy ending, and thats a good thing. Moore doesnt tie her story up in a pretty package and hand it to the reader with care, but artfully acknowledges in the end that some heavy loads cannot easily be left behind.Every once in a while, you read a book with such well-written, memorable characters that you know youre going to remember them forever&A suspenseful, restorative novel from one of our fine young voices.This is the real deal, Liz Moore is the real dealshe's written a novel that will stick with you long after you've finished it.In A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale&This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind.