Take a look at the advance acclaim for Harriet Scott Chessman's new novel. (There's still time to secure an early copy of The Beauty of Ordinary Things -- along with one-of-a-kind signed perks! -- through the official pre-order campaign. The campaign ends this Saturday, September 7, at 11:59 p.m.)"The Beauty of Ordinary Things is a soulful, tender, affecting novel, with complex, searching, sympathetic characters whose situations and plights one deeply cares about. Harriet Scott Chessman has written another wonderful book!"
—Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
"This beautiful short novel is populated by characters who are connected to each other by filaments of memory, regret and yearning. Each strand is lovely on its own, and the whole is captivating, radiant, mysterious, and deeply moving. I loved it."
—Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Swim Back to Me
“Like Annie Dillard, Chessman plumbs the mysteries of the spirit and celebrates the quiet grace notes of the earth. The Beauty of Ordinary Things is deep as a prayer, a meditation on two people seeking their right place in the world. This book speaks softly, but oh how it lingers in the mind. I can’t praise it enough.”
—Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored
World and The Madonnas of Leningrad
“Quite simply
stunning. In an exquisite few pages, Harriet Scott Chessman delivers a gigantic
story.”
—Meg
Waite Clayton, bestselling author of The Wednesday
Daughters
“A gorgeous meditation on love and spirit, grief and
passion, that unfolds with startling elegance. It captivated and moved me in equal
measure.”
—Carolina De Robertis, author of Perla and The
Invisible Mountain
“The Beauty of Ordinary Things is an exquisitely written and profoundly
moving story of love's possibilities, powers, and consolations.”
—Priscilla
Gilman, author of The
Anti-Romantic Child
“Stays with one,
hauntingly, long after one finishes reading. You will never forget Benny Finn
or Sister Clare.”
—Maud Carol Markson, author of Looking
After Pigeon and When We Get Home
