The NYT Book Review has a review of Eliza Minot’s The Brambles today. I discussed The Brambles in my first blog post, which you can read here.
You can read the whole NYT review here (subscription may be required). Here are a few excerpts:
With its multiple points of view, well-meaning but befuddled characters and fearlessness in the face of its own dark insights into family life, this is a grown-up book about grown-up people.
[S]he delivers such consistently perceptive, even stunning sentences that it’s easy to overlook the less than cohesive story and just recline inside the characters’ minds and listen to them think. This novel is imperfect in a way that leaves you marveling at the many things it does right and looking forward to the author’s next move.