Enlightenment

ANNA MUNDOW, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"Absorbing and affecting ... Thanks to the economical grace and emotional force of Ms. Perry's writing, we are also held fast by other crises, inserted like tiny detonators in her narrative. Death and desolation, though all too familiar, are freshly affecting ... A novel of ideas, however, as well as one of emotion ... It is hard to think of another modern novelist who portrays religious faith with such intelligent sympathy."