Praise for ann hood and #8220, hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale. And #8221, and #8212, New York times book review and #8220, [hood and #8217s] generosity of spirit, courage, humor, gumption, and grace are a powerful reminder that language and story have the capacity to heal, to instruct, and to change our lives. And #8221, and #8212, dani shapiro and #8220, hood never for a paragraph or a page loses control over the story that suffuses her, the sound of the words, the impact of images. and #8221, and #8212, the Philadelphia inquirer.