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Despite the central crime element, Lisa Bellow is more character study than suspense novel. Unfortunately, the prose isn’t quite strong enough to make up for a languid plot. Nonetheless, Perabo makes some interesting observations about character and family life, and her book should have some emotional resonance with anyone who’s felt out of place or left behind.
Steph Cha - USA Today


Dark and suspenseful (Best Books To Read in 2017).
Glamour.com


Told through the incredibly honest eyes of an eighth grade girl and her despairing mother, this moving story touches on tragedy, loss, and what happens to those affected.
RealSimple.com


Absolutely masterful…this should be the book to launch Susan Perabo into the realm of Known Writers, those folks whose each new work marks the landscape in overt ways. All her powerful skills are on display here—the vivid, telling details, the strangely askance story actually being told, the murky irresolution that’s somehow gratifying despite not delivering on what most readers will likely expect…this is a dynamite, stunning book that’ll hang in you long after you finish it.
Brooklyn Rail


The novel’s tension arises as much from Perabo’s insight into a complex and changing family dynamic as from the horror of an unusual but believable situation. Perabo’s female characters are particularly strong…as the novel plays with the reader’s understanding of what is actually going on in Meredith’s world.
Publishers Weekly


The second novel from writer Susan Perabo is wrenching, a dark yet beautifully told story of family, fear and grief.
BookPage


Gripping…Perabo captures both the unease and bravado of adolescence alongside the worries of parenthood and is unafraid to explore the family members’ flaws as they attempt to emerge from chaos.
Booklist


(Starred review.) Claire Oliver…is as fine a fictional character as we have encountered in some time, dark, moody, passionate about her children, keenly self-aware, and very, very funny.… You will hate to leave the inside of this woman’s head when you finish the book.
Kirkus Reviews