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More Advance Praise for The Ice Garden

One of our best American writers, Moira Crone gives us her finest book yet, a story as dazzling and dangerous as ice. The Ice Garden is a heart-stopper. This just may be the most haunting and memorable novel you will ever read.

—LEE SMITH, author of Guests on Earth and The Last Girls

Ten-year-old Claire McKenzie is the narrator of this wonderful novel, and her far-too-soon passage into adulthood is at the core of this great-hearted but never sentimental book. Moira Crone is an immensely talented writer, and all of her gifts are in full display in The Ice Garden.

—RON RASH, author of Nothing Gold Can Stay and Serena

The pages fly by in The Ice Garden, Moira Crone’s powerful new novel that, despite its title, burns with a glowing white heat. A young girl, Claire McKenzie, narrates her life with a mother trapped in the suffocating culture of the South in the sixties, a father too dazzled by his wife to notice his daughter, and the brand-new sister she adores. Moira Crone’s ability to capture feeling in words and to make those words sing is remarkable and memorable. I read the book straight through, shocked, riveted, and in awe.

—KELLY CHERRY, author of A Kind of Dream: Stories

Praise for Moira Crone

[Her] ability to find language that approximates extreme emotional states lifts her work far above most mere … realism. Moira Crone is a fable maker with a musical ear, a plentitude of nerve, and an epic heart.

—ALLAN GURGANUS WITH DORIS BETTS, Robert Penn Warren Award Citation, Fellowship of Southern Writers