"Smart, funny, and compulsively readable: this one may finally win the underrecognized author the wider audience her talent deserves."
Two very different sisters, their post-World War II cosmetics business, a swashbuckling pirate novel, and a dead dog with a shoe fetish are among the wildly disparate ingredients Pywell (Everything After, 2006, etc.) stirs into a zesty fictional stew.
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"The best examination of political and moral issues within the framework of family life since Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991). Pywell has a gift for capturing the complexity of sibling relationships that is all her own."
The author of the odd, haunting What Happened to Henry (2004) does even better in her powerful second novel about the inescapable consequences of war and lies.
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