
Ultraviolet (Hardcover)
Catapult, 9781936787951, 256pp.
Publication Date: September 4, 2018
Description
About the Author
Praise For Ultraviolet…
Praise for The Tree-Sitter (2006)
“Through the lens of first love, Suzanne Matson raises questions of morality and responsibility, of idealism and identity. . . . It’s rare for fiction to push its protagonist and its readers to such moral dilemmas, but Matson is unflinching.” —Ann Hood, author of Morningstar
“The Tree-Sitter is one of those rare, elegantly written, quietly intense books that, without resorting to sensationalism or fanfare, winds up keeping you awake at night.” —Suzanne Berne, author of The Dogs of Littlefield
“With its vivid characters, suspenseful plot, and moral complexity, this is a wonderful and very timely novel.” —Margot Livesey, author of Mercury
“At once luminous and dark, The Tree-Sitter asks age-old questions in a brand-new world. This is Suzanne Matson’s most gripping, resonant, and timely book to date.” —Elizabeth Graver, author of The End of the Point
“A confounding but compelling romance with impeccable timing.” —Los Angeles Times
Praise for A Trick of Nature (2000)
“A compelling, unpredictable narrative that moves beyond its calm suburban setting into darker social and psychological territory. Suzanne Matson’s gripping second novel only confirms what readers of The Hunger Moon already know: she is a writer of uncommon wisdom and emotional depth.” —Tom Perrotta, author of Mrs. Fletcher
“Like Ann Hood and Sue Miller, Suzanne Matson captures average people reevaluating their once comfortable domesticity as middle age slowly approaches. In delivering the Goodmans’ stumbling marriage, A Trick of Nature plumbs the attractions and terrors of giving up the familiar for an uncertain freedom.” —Stewart O’Nan, author of City of Secrets
“A compassionate psychological portrait of one family’s slow unraveling—A Trick of Nature skillfully charts the often unpredictable aftershocks of tragedy.” —A. Manette Ansay, author of Good Things I Wish You
“So skillfully does Matson describe the calm before the marital storm that it’s possible to be lulled right along with them into their own blind harmony.” —Boston Book Review
Praise for The Hunger Moon (1997)
“In this fast-moving, elegantly crafted novel, Suzanne Matson traces the arch and swoop of women moving through each other’s lives.” —Pagan Kennedy, author of Inventology
“Matson has given us a poet’s-eye view—not just the behaviors but the emotional map as well.” —Harvard Review
“A lovely, engaging first novel about the intersections between three women at very different points in their lives, each looking both inward and outward to find her place in the world.” —Melanie Thernstrom, author of The Pain Chronicles
“Crisp, clean writing. . . . Compassionately drawn characters. . . . Matson examines the full sweep of women’s lives.” —The New York Times Book Review