“I hesitate to call Kline a ‘serious novelist’ for fear of obscuring her easy style and fluid metaphor-making — but she’s the real deal. Kline dramatizes private life, from the charged crosscurrents of broken families to the robust intimacies of sex, with a generous, knowing appreciation of human nature. But what impresses most about the author is the pulsing depth and ambiguity she brings to her [characters] as she exposes the hidden turnings of the human heart.”