Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

- Andrea Barrett

Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memora…

- Andrea Barrett

I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't…

- Andrea Barrett

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest…

- Andrea Barrett

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, …

- Andrea Barrett

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is …

- Andrea Barrett