Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, shell be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel...The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things...Latiolais triumphs, folding the works clinical ruminations into the storys delicious batter. Powerfully recommended.Antioch Review The novel countsin elegant and sometimes elegiac prosethe shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption.Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies A ravishing intelligence is at work in these pages.Elizabeth Tallent, author of Honey, on Even Now A gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism in this beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brainand the heart.