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"A wonderfully seductive first novel...at once modern and archaic, lyrical and potent, that mesmerizes the reader, drawing us ineluctably into Ovid's world of marble and monuments and primal passions."
--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
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"The urge to find out what will happen next is counteracted by the wish to luxuriate in Alison's lush, beautifully evocative writing...
A dreamlike, gorgeously watery novel."
--San Francisco Chronicle
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"Exquisitely observed, wonderfully off the beaten track...Sentence by sentence, Alison's eclectic sensibility, tuned ear, and camera eye sharpen the concretized aftereffects of, one guesses, her own prodigious travels."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
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