“…the eye to see where a story lives, the heart to understand it, and the voice—and craft—to tell it.”
Lynn Sharon Schwartz
“…risky, unconventional, and full of surprises.”
The New York Times
“…a poetic ear. [Also,] like Eudora Welty…a precise and observant eye, finding in surface reality landmarks for some hidden emotional landscape.”
Paula Fox
“…an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human—and transgressive.”
The Atlantic Monthly
“…quietly ironic, with witty similes scattered…like sequins on starched gingham…. [U]nsentimental conclusions about female emancipation [presented] with elegant stoicism.”
Meg Wolitzer
“…an instinctive feel for the uneasy and necessary alliances between men and women.”
The New York Times Book Review
“…absolutely first-rate…a skillfully suggestive amalgam of Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty…”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“…exactly halfway between Salinger and O’Hara”
Publishers Weekly
“…the hallmark of a true stylist”