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Praise for Sisters

"A beautiful, heartfelt, and intelligent understanding of the shadows cast on our lives by our pasts and the pasts of those we love." -- Booklist Starred Review

"In her signature crisp, exacting prose, Tuck's seventh novel haunts the territory of marital jealously with delicacy and finesse... the novel's quiet rooms, fragmented form, sensual descriptions of food, wine, and fabric, and, above all, its dreamy pace combine to lull the reader into a reverie from which the actual plot's sudden climax comes as a rude awakening. Masterfully detailed and elegant in all its parts." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Elegant, raw and powerful...Though compact enough to be read in one sitting, it's also magnificent enough to be reread and savoured." --Publisher's Weekly

Praise for The Double Life of Liliane

"Compels the reader to appreciate bare-bones storytelling and minimalist scenes over warts-and-all portraiture and barnstorming set-pieces... After a fashion we stop questioning how much of what we are reading is memoir and how much of it isn't, and simply surrender to the elegant, limpid prose of this, the most beguiling work of Lily Tuck's career." --The Millions

"Enlivening." -- New Yorker

"Intriguing... intricate." -- Entertainment Weekly

"As with Tuck's other books, the narrative voice here performs a delicate balance between immediacy and remoteness." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"Intriguing and intelligent...Tuck simultaneously creates a layered portrait of a family and the historical eras it lived through and questions the possibility of definitively capturing or summing up human lives... a high-wire act... exciting in its sweep, ambition, and conceptual intricacy." -- Boston Globe

"Remarkably seamless... Sebaldian both in its tell-tale use of unsourced, evocative photographs and in its hypnotically smooth flow of recollection... hauntingly lovely." -- Huffington Post

"A mosaic of storytelling that is both poetic and absorbing... Tuck inhabits the spacious realm of the imagination, shifting time zones and historic periods effortlessly, weaving memories and photographs, family stories and facts, as Liliane's mesmerizing portrait emerges." --NPR.com

Praise for Lily Tuck
"A genius with moments . . . Her ability to capture beauty will remind readers of Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Tuck's unflinching eye to detail and faithful ear for dialogue bring to life the brutal, the tragic, and the melancholy." -- Boston Globe

"A masterful, insightful, readable writer." -- The Rumpus

"Tuck's prose is elegant." -- New York Times Book Review

"Tuck's fundamental focus [is] on the vicissitudes of relationships between men and women - and in this she is a master." --Shelf Awareness

Referring to the first wife only as her, to whom her husband was still married when they met, she lives her married life with constant reminders of this woman, with whom she has a respectful but arms-length relationship. Free of the marriage, has she reclaimed her life as an artist? Will the narrator ever equal her intellectually, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her and the husband, from which the narrator is excluded? The daring and precise build up to an unforeseen and eerily wonderful denouement is a triumph of subtlety and surprise.