Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share
Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
“Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.” — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
“She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.” — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
