Heft

Reviews / Votes

"Moore's characters are lovingly drawn...A truly original voice." -- The New Yorker "Heft achieves real poignancy...The warmth, the humanity and the hope in this novel make it compelling and pleasurable." -- Washington Post "Few novelists of recent memory have put our bleak isolation into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[Moore] writes with compassion and emotional insight but resists sentimentality...Heft leads to hope." -- People "Tender, thoughtful." -- New York Times Book Review "Moore's writing is clear, persuasive, and totally engaging, bringing her characters to life in all their sweet, quirky glory." -- Boston Globe "This is not a novel with a happy ending, and that's a good thing. Moore doesn't tie her story up in a pretty package and hand it to the reader with care, but artfully acknowledges in the end that some heavy loads cannot easily be left behind." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Every once in a while, you read a book with such well-written, memorable characters that you know you're going to remember them forever...Heft is a wonderful oddball of a book. I loved it." -- Jennifer Weiner "A suspenseful, restorative novel from one of our fine young voices." -- Colum McCann "This is the real deal, Liz Moore is the real deal-she's written a novel that will stick with you long after you've finished it." -- Russell Banks "Heft is a work that radiantly combines compassion and a clear-eyed vision. This is a novel of rare originality and sophistication." -- Mary Gordon "In Heft, Liz Moore creates a cast of vulnerable, lonely misfits that will break your heart and then make it soar. What a terrific novel!" -- Ann Hood