"Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune

"Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way." --Glamour

"Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human." --Miami Herald

"Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness." --New York Times

"I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary." --Mademoiselle

"Deeply impressive...powerful." --Newsweek

"Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel." --Chicago Sun-Times

"Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel." --Village Voice

"Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable." --Kirkus Reviews

"An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel." --Joseph Heller