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Praise for A Proper Knowledge

"In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within. A PROPER KNOWLEDGE reveals an author with that rare eye which is at once both clinical and poetic." — Alice Sebold, author of The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones

"An elegant and engaging novel of beauty and pain, and how one will often reveal the other.  Precise, insightful, lovely." — Aimee Bender, author of Willful Creatures

"The novel courts—-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose—-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption." — Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies

"Autism and grief acquire powerful and enigmatic reality as the reader turns the pages of A Proper Knowledge. To invoke one of its own metaphors, this novel is a refuge, not because it elides trauma or sorrow, but because it confronts them with gallant and unswerving clarity. A thousand things are noticed in this novel that you won't have seen in fiction before. Don't be fooled: for all the delicacy of its language this is a work of burning ferocity." — Elizabeth Tallent, author of Honey