"You are involved before you even notice you were paying attention
. . . Her feel for character is so keen that even hardened
metafictionalists [who] would happily fry the whole notion of
'character' for breakfast are reduced to the role of helpless
gossips, swapping avid hunches about the possible fates of the
characters."
-Tom Shone, "The New Yorker"
"Wise, kind, rueful and clear-eyed . . . and her truths are as
gritty as earth and as interesting as the world."
-Amy Bloom, "Elle"
"There's not a flat line in this book . . . not a moment that isn't
tapped for all its glorious possibilities. This is storytelling at
its best and most breathtaking."
-Beth Kephart, "Book "magazine
"Tyler's eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her
humanity irresistible. You'll want to turn back to the first
chapter the moment you finish the last."
-Linnea Lannon, "People"
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