About the Author

Monica Wood is the author of an earlier novel, Secret Language, and a guide for fiction writers, Description. Her short stories, some of which have been nominated for the National Magazine Award and read on public radio, have appeared in such publications as Glimmer Train, Redbook, Manoa, Yankee, Best American Mystery Stories 1997, Twenty Timeless Stories, and Sudden Fiction International. She won a 1999 Pushcart Prize. A native of Mexico, Maine, she currently lives in Portland with her husband. She can be reached at her Web site, www.monicawood.com.

Reviews

"Luminous . . . Monica Wood has brilliantly captured the human need to love, the heart’s desire to nurture, the soul’s urge to sacrifice."
–ANDRE DUBUS III
Author of House of Sand and Fog

"A thoroughly captivating book: warm and wise and beautifully written."
–RICHARD RUSSO
Author of Straight Man

"[AN] ACCOMPLISHED NEW NOVEL . . . Wood’s command of voice holds a reader all the way through to the last page, where . . . she holds up a mirror and encourages us to recognize ourselves."
–San Francisco Chronicle

"ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I’VE READ IN THE PAST YEAR . . . A slender book that unfolds as gracefully as the petals of a rose . . . A small gem to be read, reread, and, yes, treasured."
–The Roanoke Times

"Luminous . . . Monica Wood has brilliantly captured the human need to love, the heart's desire to nurture, the soul's urge to sacrifice."
-ANDRE DUBUS III
Author of House of Sand and Fog

"A thoroughly captivating book: warm and wise and beautifully written."
-RICHARD RUSSO
Author of Straight Man

"[AN] ACCOMPLISHED NEW NOVEL . . . Wood's command of voice holds a reader all the way through to the last page, where . . . she holds up a mirror and encourages us to recognize ourselves."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I'VE READ IN THE PAST YEAR . . . A slender book that unfolds as gracefully as the petals of a rose . . . A small gem to be read, reread, and, yes, treasured."
-The Roanoke Times