Greenwell’s voice is measured, built on careful observations and quiet gestures. " What Belongs to You is the most stirring, understated book I read this year. “ What Belongs to You whispers like an incantation of desire.In Greenwell’s poetic sentences, emotional fearlessness is mated with extraordinary sensitivity to the tremors of regret.”―Ron Charles, The Washington Post "The best first novel I've read in a generation."―Andrew Solomon, The Guardian (Best Books of the Year) But it gains a different power from its uneasy atmosphere of psychic instability, of confession and penitence, of difficult forces acknowledged but barely mastered and beyond the conscious control of even this gifted novelist."―James Wood, The New Yorker "In an age of the sentence fetish, Greenwell thinks and writes, as Woolf or Sebald do, in larger units of comprehension.Brilliantly self-aware.Greenwell's novel impresses for many reasons, not least of which is how perfectly it fulfills its intentions. "A rich, important debut, an instant classic to be savored by all lovers of serious fiction because of, not despite, its subject: a gay man's endeavor to fathom his own heart."―Aaron Hamburger, The New York Times Book Review
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