Vision of Emma Blau

"Hegi is an old-fashioned storyteller, and her characters are deeply engaging. She keeps a dozen distinct plot lines going at once and manages to give them each equal weight, so the reader never scans ahead through one to find out what will happen in the next....But despite its substantial length, THE VISION OF EMMA BLAU feels like a small novel in many ways....Every member of the Blau family seems to live in his or her own individual pod, close to the ones that they love without ever really touching....Unfortunately, it's hard to make a book about isolation feel compelling."Hegi, Ursula is the author of 'Vision of Emma Blau', published 2001 under ISBN 9780684872735 and ISBN 0684872730.