Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her debut novel, Work Like Any Other, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, and Booklist named it to their Top 10 First Novels of 2016. Virginia lives with her husband and daughters in Helena, Montana, where she teaches writing and speech at Helena College. The Behavior of Love is her second novel.
"Work Like Any Other is an exceptional novel told in clear,
direct, and starkly beautiful language. Virginia Reeves has a gift
for bringing to life all the tensions that emerge wherever people,
place, and progress collide. I absolutely loved it."--Kevin Powers,
author of The Yellow Birds
"A riveting debut that oscillates between past and present, between
the high price of hope and the betrayals of progress. Both an
intimate family saga and a heartbreaking cautionary tale, Work
Like Any Other is, above all, a starkly beautiful
novel."--Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban
"How brilliantly Virginia Reeves brings to life her protagonist,
Roscoe T Martin, with his hatred of farming, his love of
electricity and his long struggle to make amends to himself, his
family and his friends. Work Like Any Other is a novel of
fierce beauty and hard-won redemption. A wonderful debut."--Margot
Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
"Work Like Any Other is a beautifully accomplished first
novel. She draws the reader in with such ease, and plumbs the
depths of her characters with such acuteness and care, I was
totally won over."--James Magnuson, author of The Hounds of
Winter
"Reeves's novel, with its strong sense of time and place and its
interrelating cast of inmates and guards, calls to mind those
Stephen King books set in prisons, The Green Mile and The
Shawshank Redemption, that were adapted into films. But it is
Paul Harding's Pulitzer prize-winning novel, Tinkers, that is
perhaps a better comparison here because of its many bewitching
passages of description of electricity... Reeves is a fine wrangler
of words, able to snake sentences of slithery charisma in and
around each other. This is especially true in her depictions of
time and place: her settings and the people in them stand firm and
vivid in the mind's eye."--The Australian
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