
“Mason-Black’s prose sparkles with poetic beauty as Holi engages in introspective musings about collective mourning and how individual healing is possible only in community… Beautifully written and powerfully uplifting.”
—Kirkus [starred review]
“With gorgeous prose and a setting so real you can smell the boxes in Elsie’s attic, Jennifer Mason-Black crafts a story that’s part-mystery and part-odyssey. Through her complicated, layered relationship with Elsie, Holi unboxes secrets, deep wounds, and a longing for the kind of healing that comes with human connection.”
—Carrie Firestone, author of The First Rule of Climate Club and Dress Coded
“Sometimes the Girl is a book so powerful and tender that you just want to hold it close, knowing it will help you weather your own hard times. With enormous skill, Jennifer Mason-Black crosses the generation gap to plumb the pain—and poetry and transcendence— that unite two women writers of two wildly different eras. This is a metafiction every bit as addictive as the bestselling novel it’s about.”
—Margot Harrison, author of Only She Came Back
“Mason-Black never shies away from the hard questions and harder answers in this devastating, engrossing puzzle of a story. I can’t stop thinking about it.”
—Mary McCoy, author of I, Claudia and Indestructible Object