Book Reviews
Buoyant and moving...beautifully balanced between magical and realist fiction...closer in tone and voice to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones or Richard Ford's "Frank Bascombe trilogy."
Atlanta Journal Constitution
A great tale [that] builds to an exciting and violent ending, one that surprises and yet seems to fit.
USA Today
A ghost story, family psychodrama, and murder mystery all in one. Jackson's latest is a wild, smartly calibrated achievement.
Entertainment Weekly
(Audio version.) [E]motionally taut.... Jackson's honey-sweet tones heat up into panic and confusion as everything Laurel depends on falls away. While set in the languid deep South, the pace is rapid. Jackson's reading keeps things brisk without going too swiftly.
Publishers Weekly
With the appearance of a ghost on the first page, you'll feel compelled to race to the end, but slow down for Jackson's great descriptions—you'll be rewarded for the effort. Jackson illuminates not just the complexities of family love as a source of safety and support but also the complexities of danger and death.
Library Journal
Ghosts, more figurative that literal, haunt Jackson's third novel. Laurel is meant to be the heroine but she's such a dolt, readers may not feel she deserves her happy ending. The tragic figure, Bet, gets short shrift, as if Jackson doesn't quite know what to do with her. An entertaining but shallow spin on a Southern Gothic.
Kirkus Reviews