"...[a] luminous debut novel...A beautiful novel with memorable, vibrant characters that will have wide appeal"
— Booklist **starred review**
"...[ a] gripping debut novel"
— Book Magazine
"Her prose is beautifully crafted...Original and compelling."
— Library Journal
Praise for 'Ship Sooner'
"This riveting novel transforms the classical quest into a beautiful contemporary drama of family secrets and coming-of-age."
— Booklist
"In this honestly rendered tale, Mary Sullivan gives us a protagonist we can‚t help but love: Ship Sooner, who hears far more than she wants to, including the cry of her own heart, and ours. This is a lovely and redemptive novel."
— Andre Dubus III , author of House of Sand and Fog
"How pleasantly shocking to come across someone who can actually write. Mary Sullivan's sentences are beautiful--gentle and hard at the same time, and she builds the book honestly and with command sentence by sentence. Ship Sooner somehow captures the dimly remembered child-sense of the world as an amalgam of sex, horror, mystery and beauty. What an accomplishment."
— David Mamet
