Proof Copy. 8vo. 232pp. Stiff, pictorial card wraps.
Author's third novel. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year. A Pen/ Winship finalist. A pair of phantom companions accompany a motherless young woman through life, sometimes helpful, at other times destructive. A dozen years in the writing, the heroine's story hewed too close to the author's personal circumstances, as both lost their mothers at childbirth. "A quirky and enchanting novel about the thin curtain that separates our world from the next." –Alice Hoffman