“Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she’ll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais’ astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel…. The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things…. Latiolais triumphs, folding the work’s clinical ruminations into the story’s delicious batter. Powerfully recommended.”