Heidi Pitlor
The Daylight Marriage was published in 2015 by Algonquin Books
The Daylight Marriage was named an Indie Next pick. Entertainment Weekly featured the book as a “Must Read,” and along with The Guardian and Harper’s Bazaar, named it “the next Gone Girl.” The book was chosen as a best beach read by Coastal Living Magazine, Family Circle, The Advocate, and Health Magazine.
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“Pitlor merges a shocking crime story with an incisive portrait of a failed marriage. The result is novel that is fast-moving, emotionally complex and ultimately heartbreaking.”—Tom Perrotta
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“The novel’s suspense lasts right until its shocking climax, but the ‘messy, wonderful, excruciating lives’ of its characters linger in the mind long after the last page.”—The Boston Globe
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“Hypnotically readable—I absolutely couldn’t put it down. The structure is brilliant, and I turned the pages with increasing dread. This book is terrific.”—Stephen King
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“A page-turning exploration of unexpressed love and unnecessary loss. Riveting and heartbreaking.”—Geraldine Brooks
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“The easy blending of crime and family narrative deftly cracks open the closed world of Lovell and Hannah’s marriage. In this exploration of a woman lost, and a lost love, Pitlor exposes every secret—frustrations, weaknesses, ugliness—to the harsh light of day.”—Toronto Star
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“Thoughtful, lyrical, unforced…A perfect microscope with which to examine the inexhaustible fascinations of marriage.”—The New York Times Book Review
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“Understated and plausible… We learn the truth about what happened to Hannah in a way that’s all the more disturbing for its subtlety.”—Entertainment Weekly
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“What is the true horror in this story? Is it waking up to a missing spouse and all the terrible things that could mean? Or is it that one impulsive decision can result in an unalterable fate?’’—Los Angeles Review of Books
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The Birthdays was published in 2006 by W.W. Norton.
The Birthdays was a Book Sense Top 20 pick, a Border’s Original Voices selection, and a Boston Globe bestseller. People praised the novel’s “sharp insights” and The Guardian said, “Pitlor’s achievement is to give her characters individual fascination… believable and stirring.”
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"Beautifully rounded, wonderfully balanced, The Birthdays offers a rare portrait of a family caught exactly at the moment when generations shift roles. Heidi Pitlor is a wonderful writer, and her characters come alive on the page."--Andrea Barrett
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"Pitlor writes with a delicate hand to absorbing effect."--Entertainment Weekly