Rent At Risk

Synopsis

In a novel the Village Voice calls 'memorable' and 'striking,' Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...

'Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending.'

--Chicago Tribune

'Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.'

--Glamour

'Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human.'

--Miami Herald

'Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness.'

--New York Times

'I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary.'

--Mademoiselle

'Deeply impressive...powerful.'

--Newsweek

'Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel.'

--Chicago Sun-Times

'Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel.'

--Village Voice

'Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable.'

--Kirkus Reviews

'An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel.'

--Joseph Heller

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