
comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel."- The New York Times Book Review "With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end."- San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love."- Time Out New YorkĪlgeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Hemming’s first novel expands on a short story, “The Minor Wars,” that appeared in her debut story collection ( House of Thieves, 2005) about a self-consciously privileged Hawaiian family in crisis. comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel."- The New York Times Book Review "With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end."- San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love."- Time Out New York, "A Pandora's box-style tragicomedy.

comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel."- The New York Times Book Review "With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end."- San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love."- Time Out New York, "A Pandora's boxstyle tragicomedy.
