Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders: A Novel Audiobook

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• “Inventive, playful, and deeply affecting.”

  — Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author

• “A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family.”

  — Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author

• “Family secrets make for ripe hunting grounds for novelists. In this evocative book, those secrets hide mystery after mystery, like a set of Russian nesting dolls.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “As distinctively twisted as these characters’ lives are, they still touch our own in ways that can be unexpectedly playfu… By the end of Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders, much comes out of hiding. Healing cascades down the generations.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The risk of mocking a young woman with special needs is high here, but Baggott captures Tilton’s oddness and charm with real affection…As a novel about learning to love and forgive, Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders offers some sweet moments of reconciliation.”

  — Washington Post

• Pure is not just the most extraordinary coming-of-age novel I've ever read, it is also a beautiful and savage metaphorical assessment of how all of us live in this present age. This is an important book by one of our finest writers.

  — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner

• A great gorgeous whirlwind of a novel, boundless in its imagination. You will be swept away.

  — Justin Cronin, New York Times bestselling author of The Passage

• A poet has transformed a piece of history into a luminous and epic piece of literature; it's as if John Irving and Djuna Barnes had collaborated, each bringing to the page the fiery best of their various gifts, the dark and lyrical and bizarre and sexual and comical and violent and mysterious and supremely heart-breaking spectacle of wide, wild lives rendered vividly before our eyes.

  — Antonya Nelson

• Beautifully rendered, this story is as brave and unique and full of surprises as the madam portrayed within it.

  — Elizabeth Strout, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

• Few writers of the twenty-first century can rival the verve, the energy and the sheer delight in language of Julianna Baggott. Profoundly different from anything she has done before, The Madam is an extraordinary novel which will open a whole new phase of what already looks like a brilliant career.

  — Madison Smartt Bell

• Julianna Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

  — Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

• For Baggott, cosmic irony is always in the details, the absurd gap between self-knowledge and behavioral excess ... [Her] brand of witty psychological observation is dark and corrosive... [she] has the knack for finding the oxymoronic in any situation.

  — New York Times Book Review