From Barnes & NobleThe first book in seven years by National Book Award winning author Alice McDermott (Charming Billy; After This; That Night) limns the experiences of Marie Commeford, an ordinary, uncomplicated woman whose passage through life is punctuated with falls, both literal and metaphorical. What would in other hands be a drab recitation of events becomes in McDermott's an absorbing story of one woman's small victories.
Publishers WeeklyIn this deceptively simple tour de force, McDermott (Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award) lays bare the keenly observed life of Marie Commeford, an ordinary woman whose compromised eyesight makes her both figuratively and literally unable to see the world for what it is.
