Mary Morris

House Arrest

1998

Hardcover, 272 pp., Picador USA

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"House Arrest is a novel that sneaks into one's thinking...[It] steadily and winningly opens forth to be about everyone's brush with entrapment and about all those exotic-seeming ways we get free if we can. It's a subtle and intelligent and affecting book, fully aware of itself, fully formed." - Richard Ford

 

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"I loved it. The writing is superb, and the tension Morris creates between Andrea and Loretta keeps the reader anxious - a beautiful example of the thread of literary suspense."

- Anita Shreve

 

"The River Queen is my new favorite book. I wish I'd been the one to write something so flawless, so honest and so resonant."

- Jodi Picoult
author of
My Sister's Keeper