Unless (P.S.) - Softcover

"The best of her novels...fearless, smart, funny, beautifully written."--New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Relentlessly fine...imagined with style and vigor, melancholoy and wisdom."--San Diego Union-Tribune

"A brave, profound, and quirky novel with an undercurrent of the deeply amusing."--Anita Shreve, author of Sea Glass

"Some hefty perceptions, fortunately shared with us in this fine novel."--Washington Post Book World

"All the trademark Shields delights are robustly present: idiosyncratic plotting; limber prose...deep compassion...tart commentary and irreverent wit."--Orlando Sentinel

"Remarkably subtle and unsettling...one of those books that make you regret that reading is a solitary pleasure."--Christian Science Monitor

"Nothing short of astonishing."--The New Yorker

"Shields's novels and short stories are intensely imagined, humanely generous, beautifully sustained and impeccably detailed."--Publishers Weekly

"With a poet's precision, Shields dissects grief and makes coping with bad luck feel like domestic heroism."--People

"Truly, a miracle of language and perception."--The Oregonian (Portland)