Reading Groups
"[Tucker] seamlessly weaves together a touching and very modern relationship story with some compelling social issues, including medical ethics, homelessness, and corporate greed. Underlying the whole is a multifaceted analysis of what it means to be a good person in the twenty-first century... This fast-paced, funny, and smart novel is a sure bet for book clubs.
—Booklist
Once Upon A Day
"Tucker raises great questions about the nature of parental and marital responsibility. . . Once Upon a Day is readable, full of enjoyable characters, discussable and therefore bound to be a popular book-group pick."
—Denver Post
"Tucker has created a haunting, gripping novel that brims with graceful writing and fragile characters. This should be catnip for book clubs, whether they devour it as a page-turner about parenting and family or discuss its subtle meditations on fate and coincidence, wealth and poverty, freedom and safety, fairy tales and American dreams.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
The Song Reader
“An engagingly intricate debut. . . The characters become as real to the reader as they are to [the narrator]. . . Though brimful of sentiment, The Song Reader never spills over into sentimentality.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer (Editor’s Choice)
"Tucker's song-reading device is ingenious…[A] complicated story about the unbreakable bond between two sisters."
—The Boston Globe
Shout Down the Moon
"Be it physical, psychological or emotional danger, [Tucker] excels at setting her . . . protagonists in the heart of complex, often damaging familial relationships."
—St. Louis Post Dispatch
"A strikingly honest representation of single motherhood…a compelling story with a hero anyone would relate to -- and ultimately root for."
—Literary Mama
"Tucker excels at telling unexpected stories. In The Promised World, she hands the reader a solid marriage that is torn by tragedy...when the story's underlying turns are revealed, and everything comes together, it makes terrific sense."
—The Denver Post
