Come and Go, Molly Snow

"Lush and loaded as a bluegrass lick.... Come and Go, Molly Snow is as contagious as the music it describes." -- Philadelphia Enquirer

"Music spills out of this story.... The language is fresh, strong, and as appealing as Carrie Mullins." -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Recommended reading.... One's interest is consistently held by the sheer wealth of feeling that the author's mellow prose sets flowing through the pages." -- New Yorker

"A remarkable first novel.... [Carrie's] passion fills this novel with lyrical intensity. Her spirit leaps from the narrative like an inspired improvisation." -- People

"In writing of great beauty and honesty, Taylor-Hall has achieved that rare thing, a genuine evocation of a mother's grief. One reads this novel with a kind of dull ache in the chest." -- New York Newsday

"This book is more finely crafted than a wooden instrument and more deeply honest than a mountain song. It picked me up and won't let go of me.... it made me even more in love with the world." -- Pam Houston

"There's music in Come and Go, Molly Snow... but something grander, too, something almost sublime: the song of a woman's loss and pain, the song of her redemption." -- Los Angeles Times

"This vernacular and gorgeous book very simply and without frills takes it all on, from the hilarious to the shattering, and leaves you with a lingering, hard-to0place tune in your ears." -- Elle

"Mighty fine.... Mary Ann Taylor-Hall's real achievement in her first novel is to bring us inside a grieving woman's mind and enrich us with her grief." -- Washington Post Book World

"Exquisite... As in Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World, the events of this story are searing, but the writing is like a plaintive, unforgettable song.... Not to be missed." -- Publisher's Weekly

"Taylor Hall's book, as it turns out, is like those golden peaches, to be savored time and time again." -- Journal of Appalachian Studies