Reviews

The Sisters Antipodes
"An incomparable personal story exquisitely, stunningly told." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Alison masterfully delineates the treacherous forms...jealousy...[can] take...in a truly unusual, harrowing journey of identity." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
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The Love-Artist
"A wonderfully seductive first novel . . . that shimmers with the musical artifice of Ovid’s poetry while evoking the darker tragedies of his life . . . Alison has found a voice, at once modern and archaic, lyrical and potent, that mesmerizes the reader . . . . A small, twinkling jewel of a novel." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
 
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The Marriage of the Sea
“Ambitious, complex, challengingly intellectual . . . a creation of real beauty. . . . A real achievement.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review).
 
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Natives and Exotics
“A tender, lyrical novel . . . . a lush evocation of the way people love and alter (and are altered by) the environments they inhabit.” -- Publishers Weekly. (starred review).
 
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Books

 
The Sisters Antipodes
In this enormously compelling memoir, novelist Alison (Natives and Exotics) recounts the strangely definitive reconfiguration of her family when her parents broke up.
 
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The Love-Artist
Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edge of the Roman Empire?
 
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The Marriage of the Sea
A tragical comedy set in New Orleans and Venice, about four men, three women, food, architecture, love and water.
 
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Natives & Exotics
It's a difficult thing to crave, land, especially when your body is small. And a dangerous thing.
 
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