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“Rich, intricate, and
alive with emotion…An honest portrait of sister-love and sister-hate—interlocking,
brave, and forgiving—made whole through art.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Glass is Edith
Wharton for the twenty-first century…Wharton wrote more than forty-eight books
in her lifetime. American literature could use a few more from Glass.”
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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“Extraordinarily good…Unusually
rich [and] complex.”
— Boston Globe
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“A vivid tapestry of
believable characters and locations from across the American landscape…Luminous
and bittersweet…[Louisa and Clem] become the kind of characters who will live
on in the reader’s imagination long after the book has been put back on the
shelf.”
— Oregonian
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“I See You Everywhere manages, with subtle grace, to examine both
sides of the coin, and to follow the sisters as life hands them both the good
news and bad…The mother of the Jardine girls found it easy to pick a favorite.
It won’t be nearly as clear a choice for the reader.”
— Denver Post
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“Glass writes the
sort of novels that you wish would go on forever…I See You Everywhere is a lovely and heartbreaking book, and it
ends far too soon.”
— Miami Herald
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“The elegant I See You Everywhere marks a return to
the form that won Glass a National Book Award.”
— Christian Science Monitor
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“Lousisa and Clement…are
disarming, endearing, and utterly comprehensible. Glass elegantly captures what
it means to be an independent and spirited contemporary woman—full of impulses
that can’t be domesticated into conventional feminine behavior.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Glass proves her eye
for detail and character is as sharp as ever…[Louisa and Clem’s] push/pull
relationship will ring true to most siblings…Beautifully composed.”
— St. Petersburg Times
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“May well be [Glass’s]
best yet.”
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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“Proceeds like a
series of carefully planned explosions, each illuminating a period of the women’s
lives with an exuberant burst.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Extraordinary…A
thoughtful and amiable story.”
— Rocky Mountain News
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“A sometimes
stinging, always affecting tale of siblings who can’t quite make it as friends.”
— Marie Claire
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“A story of the
exacting, often painful toll of familial love.”
— More
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“Glass treats Louisa
and Clem’s careers with a particularly fine eye for detail and the gravity they
deserve.”
— Onion’s A.V. Club
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“[Glass] writes with
a bracing emotional and intellectual intensity…Glass so accurately depicts the
complexities of the sororal bond that it’s no surprise to find that she hails
from a sisterhood of two as well.”
— Elle
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“An arresting story
that is both thorny and complex…[Glass’s] eye takes in the blind spots and
makes them mesmerizing.”
— New York Daily News
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“Nowhere are the ebbs
and flows, the complex and often ugly nuances, the bonds and the breaks between
sisters more achingly or more piercingly explored.”
— USA Today
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“One doesn’t read so
much as sink into a Julia Glass novel…A haunting dissection of human fragility.”
— People
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“So heartbreakingly
luminous that you’d swear Glass had access to your own most secret thoughts.”
— Redbook
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“Glass has mastered
the novel of manners, American-style.”
— Contra Costa Times
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“Glass is a wisely
questioning, ardent, and artful novelist.”
— Booklist