Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her debut novel, Work Like Any Other, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and Booklist named it to their Top 10 First Novels of 2016. Virginia lives with her husband and daughters in Helena, Montana, where she teaches writing and speech at Helena College. The Behavior of Love is her second novel.
"A striking debut about love and redemption, the heavy burdens of
family and guilt and learning how to escape them. Powerfully told
and lyrically written, there is not a false note in this book.
Reeves is a major new talent."
*Philipp Meyer, author of The Son*
"Work Like Any Other is an exceptional novel told in clear, direct,
and starkly beautiful language. Virginia Reeves has a gift for
bringing to life all the tensions that emerge wherever people,
place, and progress collide. I absolutely loved it."
*Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds*
“How brilliantly Virginia Reeves brings to life her protagonist,
Roscoe T Martin, with his hatred of farming, his love of
electricity and his long struggle to make amends to himself, his
family and his friends. Work Like Any Other is a novel of fierce
beauty and hard-won redemption. A wonderful debut.”
*Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy*
“The world of this exquisite novel – 1920s Alabama – hasn’t let go
of me since I finished it. It’s gorgeous, painful, original, and so
true in all its details. Reeves writes with incredibly intelligent
compassion, and in Roscoe Martin has created an extraordinary man
who more than earns his place among the complicated population of
the literary South. Thick with dread and beauty, this is a stunning
chronicle of a time, a place, and a mind.”
*Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest*
"Virginia Reeves' assured and absorbing debut novel is a potent mix
of icy honesty and heart-wrenching tenderness; it is certainly a
Work Unlike Any Other, in that its humanity and optimism are
salvaged from the darkest of places, from prison cells, from mining
shafts, from decomposing marriages, and from the unforgiving
workings of the land."
*Jim Crace, author of Harvest and Being Dead*
"A slow-burning pleasure... Wonderful... Brutal, beautiful, and, to
some significant extent, redemptive."
*Daily Mail*
"Beautifully written, this is an unusual and moving debut."
*Sunday Times*
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