A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry. —J. M. CoetzeeOhlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.—Jay McInerneyExpect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams. —Heidi Julavits From the highly acclaimed author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories, a resonant novel of entwined lives and a woman with an unsettling ability to broach the innermost dynamics of the people around her. When Grace, an exceedingly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man who has just failed to hang himself, her instinct to help kicks in immediately. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward.
