Prisoners

Karlin is one of the most gifted, passionate, and powerful writers of his generation.-George Garrett, in choosing Prisoners as one of the most notable books of 1998 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography
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""As the novel weaves characters and their voices in and out and moves toward a shattering climax in which age-old sin and horror come to bear on contemporary life, the reader realizes that the story of a young girl's search for a lost father is really the story of the world America has created. It is a dark-laced nightmare vision that still, ironically, has room for salvation.""-Multicultural Review

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""Poetic, powerful fiction.""-Mary Ann Carroll, Booklist