This is My Daughter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A clear-eyed, poignant story of a family in crisis.

San Jose Mercury News

Glitters not with rich trappings, but rich with understanding of its people.

Entertainment Weekly

A portrait of parenthood, with all its wild loves and anguished fears...compulsively readable.

Los Angeles Times

With almost perfect pitch, Robinson captures the clash of worldviews between adults and young children.

People Magazine

Robinson writes with slow-motion precision. She registers every last gesture and nuance and gets it all right.

Newsday

Robinson's impressive new novel grows on you...so slowly you discover how truly ambitious and tough its intentions are.

USA Today

Compelling...after reading this exceptional novel, it may be hard to think about remarriage without this book coming to mind.

The New York Times Book Review

Often compared to John Cheerer...but Robinson's latest novel made me think of an earlier literary forebear, Henry James.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Nearly perfect prose...there isn't an awkward phrase or false note in the entire work, Robinson depicts this family's struggle to survive with unerring intelligence and grace.

The Washington Post Book World

Robinson's strength as a novelist rests in her ability to create the texture of life.... This Is My Daughter shows us that it is -- as Robinson writes -- brave to be independent

and braver still to engage.