“Arresting… With an enviable ear for dialogue and high command of prose, Hughes finds in these overlapping stories a stark beauty amid scenes of suffering and death.[She] is a careful reader of her characters, and captures their small, easy-to-miss moments of humanity through life’s vicissitudes. These stories pack a punch.”
“Fiction Book Review: The Ocean House by Mary-Beth Hughes,” Publishers Weekly, September 30, 2020.
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