The Almost Moon

Critical Praise

“From the very first sentence, which is a masterpiece of understated horror, readers are fully immeresed in the perspective of an unstable yet highly functioning mind. The pace is superb…readers who appreciate suspense will find themselves unable to put the book down…”
—Library Journal, starred review

“Think the living-room tragedy of Long Day’s Journey Into Night fused with the sunny, surly, dark-funny domesticity of Six Feet Under.”
—New York Magazine

“Sebold’s unblinking authorial gaze is her hallmark: where lesser writers would turn away from things too horrible to see or feel or admit, her scrutiny never wavers.”
—Time

“Alice Sebold returns with her second novel, an equally [to The Lovely Bones] haunting narrative about the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship.”
—Woman’s Day

“It is indisputably a good thing when writing is so vivid it causes physical reactions. . . . [Sebold’s] willingness to pry into the darker aspects of human consciousness is what's important.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Brilliantly paced, it's brutally honest, and the Gordian knot at its core . . . is depicted with such generous intelligence that the fineness of the novel more than surpasses its own horror show of circumstance.”
—Boston Globe

“Sebold can still write beautiful, haunting scenes.”
—Washington Post Book World

“From the opening line of The Almost Moon . . . we recognize Alice Sebold's hand: her sensuous yet impeccably direct language, her world where the poignant and the gruesome intertwine.”
—Houston Chronicle

“Along with its buoying dark wit, it is this eerily familiar blurred line between sane and insane that makes "The Almost Moon" simultaneously uncomfortable and absorbing.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

"Sebold may be our true heiress to Poe, a novelist who dares to write honestly about the banality of violence, and about how it lives next door to normalcy, in a mist."
—Philadelphia Inquirer

"Alice Sebold is not just talented but very bold.”
—Arizona Republic