"With layers of inventive language, vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom, this is a brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte."
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Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology
“Matalon is a unique literary stylist whose pitch-perfect novel focuses on the spectacle of the big day … Matalon nails how families relate to each other. Her scenes are cinematic and evocative … A masterful rendering of a failed wedding day and the embedded failures that individuals, a family, and a culture accrue in the process of trying to manage their circumstances. As complex and chaotic as life.”
Foreword Reviews (Starred Review)