The Almost Moon Audiobook

Quotes

• “Sebold’s unblinking authorial gaze is her hallmark: where lesser writers would turn away from things too horrible to see or feel or admit, her scrutiny never wavers.” 

  — Time

• “Sebold can still write beautiful, haunting scenes.” 

  — Washington Post Book World 

• “Brilliantly paced, it’s brutally honest, and the Gordian knot at its core…is depicted with such generous intelligence that the fineness of the novel more than surpasses its own horror show of circumstance.” 

  — Boston Globe

• “Along with its buoying dark wit, it is this eerily familiar blurred line between sane and insane that makes The Almost Moon simultaneously uncomfortable and absorbing.” 

  — San Francisco Chronicle 

• “Alice Sebold is not just talented but very bold.”

  — Arizona Republic 

• “Sebold can write, that’s clear.” 

  — Publishers Weekly

• “From the opening line of The Almost Moon…we recognize Alice Sebold’s hand: her sensuous yet impeccably direct language, her world where the poignant and the gruesome intertwine.” 

  — Houston Chronicle 

• “Sebold brings to the portrait such honesty and empathy that many will find their own dark impulses reflected here.” 

  — Booklist