Critical Praise

"A precocious debut. . . . Mrs. Dew can convey, with a skill matched by few writers today, the quick, peculiar shifts in feelings that we experience, moment to moment, day by day."

——Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The rewards of Dale Loves Sophie to Death are quiet but rich, and prove once again that in fiction there are no automatically compelling subjects. There are only compelling writers."

——Katha Pollitt, New York Times Book Review

"Arrestingly elegant."

——Anne Tyler, New Republic

"Like Virginia Woolf, Robb Forman Dew reaches into the flow of daily life to break open a single moment. She captures beautifully the shift and flux of feelings, friendships, perspectives, the child in the adult and adult in the child."

——Newsweek