"Wolitzer mines the subject of long-term marriage for its poetry and sensual joys ... You won't stop reading until this couple works through its destiny." -- New Woman
"Extraordinary ... All the things you want a novel to be -- sad, funny, familiar ... beautiful." -- Cosmopolitan
"Paulie and Howard make this story real and moving and completely their own ... Wolitzer has come up with a real winner." -- USA Today
"Extraordinary ... All the things you want a novel to be -- sad, funny, familiar ... beautiful." -- Cosmopolitan
"Paulie and Howard make this story real and moving and completely their own ... Wolitzer has come up with a real winner." -- USA Today