In a novel the Village Voice calls memorable and striking, Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending. --Chicago Tribune Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.--Glamour Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human.--Miami Herald Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness. --New York Times I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary. --Mademoiselle Deeply impressive...powerful. --Newsweek Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel. --Chicago Sun-Times Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel. --Village Voice Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable. --Kirkus Reviews An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel. --Joseph Heller