Critical Praise

"I thought the heroine was a great accomplishment… . . . And William is a triumph."

——Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce

"I read this book in one sitting while lying on my favorite couch. And I'll read it again on a future road trip. And I'll read it for a third time in the bathtub. Ayelet Waldman is that good."

——Sherman Alexie, author of Ten Little Indians

"LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS is the most riveting and sharply rendered novel I've read in years. Ayelet Waldman writes the language of grief with virtuosic fluency. Piercing, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, she makes us rapt participants in her protagonist's struggle with the most painful complications of marriage and motherhood. Once you begin this book, there will be no putting it down. Once you've finished, you will never forget it."

——Julie Orringer, author of How To Breathe Underwater

"This novel is, to quote a favorite song, 'sly, slick and wicked wicked wicked child.' It's wickedly funny in the minute details of contemporary life and love and parenting, but it's sly the way Waldman makes the reader laugh at the spectacle of a mother trying to manufacture love for one child, while making the reader tearful about the loss of another child. In the end, this novel conjures up the magical balance of both."

——Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon