Praise for Julie Orringer’s "The Invisible Bridge"
 
"One of the best books of the year."
—Junot Diaz, author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
“If you’re still looking for a ‘big’ novel to carry into the summer holidays—one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you’re slumming—then Julie Orringer’s "The Invisible Bridge" is the book you want. . . . Stunning. . . . In every admirable sense an ‘ambitious’ historical novel, in which large human emotions—profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties—play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty. . . . Orringer traverses this perilous rhetorical terrain with remarkable—and, more important, convincing, self-possession. . . . Remarkably affecting. . . . A life powerfully, unsentimentally and inspiringly evoked in this gracefully written and altogether remarkable first novel.

"Profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty. . . . A stunning first novel." --"Los Angeles Times"
"Truly breathtaking. . . . A sensual feast." --"San Francisco Chronicle
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""The Invisible Bridge "is a tale of war-torn lovers, family and survival of the luckiest rather than the fittest. . . . Wonderfully evoked." --"Chicago Tribune "
"Orringer's writing is glorious." --"The Oregonian
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"What begins as a jewel-box romance soon breaks open into a harrowing saga of war. Orringer . . . conveys a piercing sense of what it means to be fated by one's blood." --"Vogue "
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"At the risk of oversimplifying things, this novel shows how Michael Chabon would write if he grew up a ballet-dancing girl instead of a comic-book-loving boy." --"The Plain Dealer "
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"[Orringer] make[s] us care so deeply about the people of her all-too-real fictional world. For the time it takes to read th