THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
“Marvelous…[Howrey} has tapped a vein of life’s messy, heartbreaking and hilarious moments…I doubt even Chekhov could engineer a scene as satisfying or as poignant.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Expertly crafted…smart, sardonic, and powerful…Howrey delivers big feelings…keeping the reader on the edge of their seat, alternately howling with laughter, holding their breath awaiting resolution, and weeping.” —Los Angeles Times
“Both deft and generous, with tenderness, cleverness, and no small degree of audacity. The writing is both very funny and offhandedly graceful, with characters who feel as if they might just walk off the page and begin speaking to you in their kitchen.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“An urgent exploration of aging, agency, and female self-possession.” —Oprah Daily
“Body Language is one of the best novels I’ve read in years. It’s brainy and joyful and philosophical and really, really funny. It made me cry, which few books do. And Meg Howrey’s sentences—rhythmic, lithe, precise—are just incredibly pleasurable. I loved it.” —Leni Zumas, author of Wolf Bells
“I loved this book. Body Language hums with lyricism, quiet power, and the kind of stubborn humor that sustains us humans in our darkest moments. Meg Howrey’s tale of three complicated sisters facing their mother’s decline moves deftly, inexorably, from the mundane to the metaphysical. An ambitious and deeply satisfying book.” —Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
“Howrey’s emotional precision and characterizations are astounding. She weaves depths of familial and personal history for each character to create a beautiful and moving novel exploring the many stories that make up a woman’s life.” —Booklist, starred review
“Howrey is a reliably beautiful stylist, and her slyly funny prose and blade-sharp insights unto human behavior really should put her in the same conversation as writers like Ann Patchett and Barbara Kingsolver…A comfort meal of a novel: poignant and prismatic.” —Kirkus
“Meg Howrey writes with a satiric eye and a generous heart, and I was won over by her hilarious and disarmingly honest novel about mothers and daughters and what it really means to take care of the people you love.”
—Marissa Silver, author of At Last