Black & White

Spellbinding...provocative, hypnotic...spot-on authentic. A cool depiction of a mother and daughter's fraught and fiery relationship

USA Today

Enthralling, fast-paced and a great read.

The Miami Herald

Uncompromising storytelling.... The ideas Shapiro grapples with resonate, and she raises trenchant and enduring questions that resist easy answers

Los Angeles Times

Universal dilemmas face us all, and it is the novelist's job to breathe life into them one way or another, and this is something Shapiro does very well indeed

New York Times Book Review

The novel offers some fine insights into marriage, the making of art and the often difficult mother-daughter dynamic

Publishers Weekly

Shapiro portrays [this family] with compassion and humanity - nobody's really a villain, though all of her characters are flawed... Black & White is really about the shades of grey in human relationships

Bookpage

Shapiro does something rather thrilling with her story: she gets it just right.

Washington Post

Oprah’s Book Club readers or fans of Jodi Picoult will enjoy this psychologically gripping book

Library Journal

Shapiro's central characters are expertly rendered

Elle Magazine

[Shapiro] writes with an economy that draws the reader into the dramatic fray of the scenes

Providence Journal

Searing . . . Shapiro forages a remarkably clear-eyed path through the issues at hand

Dallas Morning News

Thought-provoking . . . Black & White explores the web of family, obligation, and trust. And reveals life’s shades of gray

Daily Candy

Trenchant and enduring

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Mothers and daughters is a naturally absorbing subject and in Black & White, Shapiro shapes an intriguing dilemma that heightens into a moving story

New York Daily News

The extraordinary Dani Shapiro (Family History and Slow Motion) pushes mother-daughter boundaries to the limit in a blistering novel about art and ambition

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