“As Bloom has demonstrated throughout her stellar literary career . . . she can train her eye on any person, place, or object and render it sublime. Her prose is so finely wrought it shimmers. Again and again she has returned to love as her primary subject, each time finding new depth and dimension, requiring us to put aside our expectations and go where the pages take us. As readers, we’re in the most adept of hands.”—Los Angeles Times
“So much recent domestic fiction has been about women individuating, leaving, calling the whole thing off. This one gathers everyone in the garden for shandies.”—The New York Times
“A wryly humorous, emotionally generously and expansively embracing author, Bloom approaches each of her characters with empathy, insight, and sensitivity. She remains acutely aware of the absurdities of life, its harrowing hardships, and its fragile, fleeting joys.”—The Boston Globe
“Amy Bloom has practically patented this kind of grand dreaminess . . . epics spun out of intimate memories. Her latest is a sweeping, decades-spanning novel about love in all its unruly forms and the ways in which families are made and remade.”—Electric Literature
“Rich, sensual . . . devastating . . . Bloom’s suggestive prose awakens our senses. . . . a brisk, short read, and yet, somehow it gives us a family and a world.”—BookPage, starred review
“Amy Bloom infuses every page of her newest novel with her singular wit and warmth. It is a chronicle of ordinary life made extraordinary through the beauty of Bloom’s prose and the generosity of her vision.”—Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“An unforgettable story of family, friendship, love and loss by one of America’s finest writers.”—John Boyne, New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and All the Broken Places
“Told with humor and heart, I’ll Be Right Here reminds us of the sweet profundity of human connection.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage
“I read this stunning novel in a single sitting and then moped around for days because I missed the characters so much.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs
“Every time Amy Bloom writes a book, another small miracle occurs. In I’ll Be Right Here, she explores notions of pride, kindness, fearlessness, longing, belonging, and love. What else do we expect from a writer who wrings out our tired hearts and updates our souls?”—Colum McCann, author of Twist
“Chosen family spreads its branches over decades and continents . . . full of surprises, wild leaps and turns, and many fascinating people who love each other . . . Warm, rich, beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Moves fluidly . . . peeling back the layers of a lifetime of love and loss.”—Booklist
“Stimulating . . . with [Bloom’s] thoughtful and complex character development . . . It’s a memorable portrait of a found family’s fulfillment.”—Publishers Weekly
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