“I feel I was very lucky to be a dancer first. I learned not to be results-oriented…. I learned over years and years that the most gorgeous things pop up unannounced, and the whole project is to be there when it happens.”
Joe Fassler, By Heart: How Writing Achieves Grace, interview with Mary-Beth Hughes
The Atlantic, July 28, 2015
“For readers patient enough to look beneath the make-up, there are marvels to behold.”
Thomas Beller, ‘The Loved Ones,’ by Mary-Beth Hughes
The New York Times Sunday Book Review, July 24, 2015
“Sexy, immersive and lushly written. Read with a sundress on—and a pair of Wayfarers.
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Julie Buntin, 2 Chill-Out Books to Read Over July 4 (and More)
Oprah, July 2, 2015
“Bracing… Hughes is preternaturally alert to subtleties of appearance, gesture, and sensory detail.”
Books: Briefly Noted
The New Yorker, July 6, 2015
“[E]motionally raw but ultimately elegant. . . . Hughes brings the reader so close to each member of the Devlin family that when the faces come into view, we know the characters so well that their physical attributes seem beside the point.”