"A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel" (Elle)"A pure treat from the cover to the very last page" (Washington Post)"Mutli-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images... Kushner has fashioned a story that will linger like a whiff of decadent Colony perfume" (New York Times Book Review)"Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before" (San Francisco Chronicle)"A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book" (Seattle Times)