“Hughes’s deep dive into its characters is reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s close study of her Bloomsbury denizens, or J.D. Salinger’s psychological probings of the Glass family. Regarding her resources of art and craft, Hughes is just as masterful. … Hughes doles out details deftly; nothing is incidental. … The Beach House is a collection so varied in its telling, rich in its details and character-divining that it demands to be re-read…Her penetrating glimpses into the depths of these lives make us more deeply aware of our own.”
David Daniel, “Book Review: ‘The Ocean House’— Infiltrating the Beachheads of Memory,” The Arts Fuse, January 7, 2021.
https://artsfuse.org/216908/book-review-the-ocean-house-infiltrating-the-beachheads-of-memory/