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Critical Praise

"Shapiro's strength is a painterly style.... [Maude] never fails to hold reader interest.... Aspiring artists will enjoy this inside look at gallery life, while fans of Sittenfeld's Prep will welcome a return to the private-school world."

——Booklist

"Studded with pitch-perfect observations about adolescence, the suburbs, the 1960s, the books we read, the boys we knew and the things that obsessed us, Anna Shapiro has fashioned a satisfying novel that is like a dip into one's own history."

——Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position

"Shapiro ... is a shrewd anthropologist well versed in the cultures of adolescence, the '60s and class strife."

——Publishers Weekly

"The dark heart of a 1960s Levittown family is artfully revealed.... Shapiro's portrait of Maude is knife-sharp; she completely inhabits the consuming inner world of a painfully intelligent adolescent girl, showing Maude's every mood, thought and desire with piercing clarity. A bracing and raw portrait of the inner life of a ... passionate, suburban rebel."

——Kirkus Reviews