Marigold and Rose A Fiction

"Luminous . . . [Marigold and Rose] shimmers with Glück's trademark poetic voice, weaving everyday magic into playpens and cribs." -TIME

"[Marigold and Rose] exists in a liminal zone between poetry and prose . . . Glück, in shrinking the world to the size of a pair of blankets inside cribs, manages to gently pack her narrative with feeling . . . It addresses, in larval and thus primal form, many of the concerns of Glück's poetry. As she wrote in a poem titled 'Nostos': 'We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.'" -Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Glück's emotional intelligence never surrenders to cosy consolation, yet the writing remains exquisitely beautiful . . . Marigold and Rose can be devoured in a single sitting, and that's probably the best way to enter its tonal world, which is strangely hypnotic, in part because the mood never swings to violent intensity, and in part because of the orderly rhythms of Glück's prose . . . [Marigold and Rose] brilliantly evokes the timelessness of early childhood, and indeed of babyhood, before a child has even adapted to her own circadian rhythms. There is that sense of suspension, of living without past or future, which is the superpower of infancy." -Fiona Sampson, The Guardian

"Alongside an exploration of the dichotomies that bind the girls together are meditations on many of Glück's familiar preoccupations: halves and wholes, familial inheritance, time's passage, the psychic power of words. The innocence of the girls' observations, bearing an infant clarity, pare many of the book's subjects down to a revealing frankness." -The New Yorker

"Stunningly imaginative, incisive, sly, and hilarious . . . Concentrating the depth, rigor, and complexity of her poems into a delectably renegade, mordant, and bravura prose performance, Glück tracks the love and rivalry between these little philosophers . . . Succinctly and provocatively illuminates the vagaries of human consciousness, the bewitchment of language, and the mysterious assertion of the self." -Donna Seaman, Booklist

"[Marigold and Rose] centers on twin sisters in their first year of life, unfolding like a fable as they slowly come to grips with time, safety, happiness, loss, and the vagaries of communication . . . Reed-slim, it teems with small wisdoms and lilts like a lullaby." -Marley Marius, Vogue

"The 2020 Nobel Prize-winning poet here pens a gorgeous 52-page work of fiction that is as magical as a fairy tale . . . This tiny gem of a book packs a gut-wrenching punch, ruminating on family, the passage of time, and the power of words." -Oprah Daily