Overview & Description

In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...

"Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending."

--Chicago Tribune

"Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way."

--Glamour

"Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human."

--Miami Herald

"Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness."

--New York Times

"I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary."

--Mademoiselle

"Deeply impressive...powerful."

--Newsweek

"Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel."

--Chicago Sun-Times

"Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel."

--Village Voice

"Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable."

--Kirkus Reviews

"An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel."

--Joseph Heller