“A bright, restless novel,” said Richard Yates of Salamon’s first book, the story of a young woman wrestling with the darkness in her family’s past.
“The best parts make your hair stand up; that’s enough.”
Kirkus Reviews
“The portrayals of Jamaica’s Czechoslovak parents, her feisty mother and silent doctor father, and of the beauty and dangers of rural America are evocative and vivid.”
The New York Times Book Review