Hood : A Novel
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
From the New York Times bestselling author of ROOM, HOOD is a graceful tale of coming to terms with loss.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue, Hood is a graceful tale of a young woman who must come to terms with love and loss in the wake of her partner’s sudden passing. The New York Times Book Review calls Hood “utterly charming,” writing that,“Ms. Donoghue displays her confidence by avoiding the grandiose and the showy, and dipping into the ordinary with control and the occasional sustaining descriptive flashes of a born writer.” For readers of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Joyce Carol Oates’s The Widow’s Story, Donoghue’s Hood is a masterfully crafted narrative of relationships and a daring, deft exploration of the love’s imperfection—and how it can nonetheless dominate our lives as we grow and change.
Review(s):
“Utterly charming. . . . Here again, Ms. Donoghue displays her confidence by avoiding the grandiose and the showy, and dipping into the ordinary with control and the occasional sustaining descriptive flashes of a born writer.”
“A delicate and moving love story.”
“Emma Donoghue negotiates this territory deftly and with rather startling humor. . . . It is Pen’s winning sanity and avid eye for absurdity—in the Church and in the bedroom—that keep this confident, touching novel afloat.”
“[A] love story that well conveys the complexities and nuances of intimate relationships . . . stately and elegiac.”
ISBN: 9780062117106