About the Author

Justin Cronin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and associate professor of English at La Salle University. He lives with his wife and their young daughter in Philadelphia. He is a winner of the 2002 Whiting Writers' Award and Mary and O'Neil won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction.

Reviews

'Subtle, truthful and lovely' Observer 'An artful debut..Cronin is admirably fearless in the scope of his imagination' New York Times Book Review 'Precise and illuminating...an absorbing study of family relations' The Times