Sue Miller is the best-selling author of the novels The Lake Shore Limited, The Senator’s Wife, Lost in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, and The Good Mother; the story collection Inventing the Abbotts; and the memoir The Story of My Father. She lives in Cambridge.
“Entertaining. . . . Fantastic sizzle, both sexual and spiritual. .
. . A cracking good romance.” —The Boston Globe
“Affecting. . . . Ambitious. . . . [Told with] humor and real
sweetness. . . . [Miller] demonstrate[s] that domestic fiction
needn’t be domesticated.” —Washington Post
“A page-turner. . . . Miller excels at portraying the ways in which
people connect, and just miss connecting.” —Chicago Tribune
“Full of Miller’s signature intelligence about people caught
between moral responsibility and a hunger for self-realization.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Provocative, suspenseful and emotional. . . . [Miller’s] portrayal
of the fragility of relationships and fear of the unknown—of the
things that happen to and around us that we can’t control—are
spot-on.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[Miller] has an elegant way with prose. Her descriptions never
feel writerly, but intricate and real, and her sentences flow like
a summer river. . . . There’s a kindness to her writing, a sort of
authorial gentleness; though never saccharine or sentimental, we
see the goodness in the people she creates. . . . She’s the kind of
author who creates, for us, a home on the page.” —The Seattle
Times
“Moving and convincing. . . . [Miller] is an eloquent chronicler of
the complexities of ordinary relationships, whose informal language
belies the depths of her insights. . . . [Her] prose, narrated in
the third person . . . is colloquial and homely. . . . [She]
nails the contradictory emotions and desires that are responsible
for people so often bypassing the seemingly easy road to
happiness.” —The Independent (London)
“Miller [eschews] easy cliff-hangers or narrative deceits. The
momentum grows instead from her compassionate handling of these
characters. . . . Not all questions are answered, nor all mysteries
solved, but the end of the book is imbued with the same quiet
energy that’s been building throughout; it’s not happy,
exactly—that would be too easy—but, in true Sue Miller fashion,
it’s triumphant.” —Elle
“Written in a style that is both graceful and accessible, this
enthralling novel grabs your attention and never lets it go.” —Real
Simple
“Moving . . . profoundly satisfying. . . . In another writer’s
hands The Arsonist would be a thriller, but Miller is concerned
with deeper mysteries of human motivation.” —The Daily Telegraph
(London)
“Miller writes with penetrating honesty. . . . With a deft,
homespun acuity.” —The Guardian (London)
‘This isn’t a conventional mystery book. . . . It’s intense,
building toward resolutions that answer some questions but not all.
Miller’s pacing is perfect, making The Arsonist a pleasurable slow
burn of a read.” —San Antonio Express-News
“Miller’s prose . . . keeps you reading. Her sentences have a
sumptuous quality to them.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin
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