All Over Creation

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Ozeki shows more courage than most in melding a well-crafted, often comic story of the personal with the political * * Observer * * Sophisticated . . . Seamlessly done . . . A nice blend of humour and strangely affecting optimism. Ozeki has written a book where dread and hope coexist. Neither is given short shrift or magicked away * * New York Times * * Highly original * * Daily Mail * * Amusing, moving and delicately controlled * * Big Issue * * All Over Creation opens wider with every plot twist as it moves from tenderness to comedy to sobering truth and the world in the eye of one family's storm -- BARBARA KINGSOLVER This winning novel . . . is a feast of humour and wisdom about family and friendship * * Glamour * * Ozeki is a gifted storyteller. All Over Creation buzzes and blooms with the cross-pollination of races and subcultures, death and birth, betrayal and reconciliation, comedy and tragedy * * Los Angeles Times * * Ozeki deftly and sensitively folds the variegated topics together, whipping up a savoury treat * * Entertainment Weekly * * Captivating . . . Ozeki joins the constellation of such environmentally aware writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx and Margaret Atwood, bringing her own shrewd and playful humour, luscious sexiness and kinetic pizazz . . . A busy, darkly humorous and cunningly entertaining novel, weaving canny psychological insights into each twist in her purposeful yet anarchically tinged plot * * Chicago Trubune * * Bewitching . . . Ozeki's story splices a bit of Edward Abbey into an Anne Tyler plot. The fruits of this mix are definitely worth tasting * * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * *