The previous review is very off the mark. This novel is anything BUT shallow and it is never cheap, but brave and uniquely told. Nor does it settle for the sentimentality that often passes for character motivation. For those who prefer literary and poetic novels with depth and precision this is a book to savor and cherish.

I really thought this was a significant novel, about outsider-ness, told with a kind of seamless nautralness which marks Ms. Tyler's writing as so fine.