Newsday’s Favorite Books 2007
Minnesota Book Award Winner
Midwest Booksellers’ Association Choice Award Honor Book

“The result is electric and alive, containing a fire her mother would surely recognize and a beauty her father would approve . . . . . Hampl’s honest examination of her own life makes “The Florist’s Daughter” a wonder of a memoir.”
New York Times Book Review
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 “Patricia Hampl is the queen of memoir…Do the pieces Hampl gives us fit together to form a whole person? Yes! When will it end? Hopefully, never.”
The Los Angeles Times
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“ . . . an intense gaze at ‘the spiral of wonder and wounds that accounts for the bravery of supposedly ordinary people in allegedly ordinary lives.’. . . What Hampl has so generously done is to treat her parents like fully imagined characters in a complex novel.”
Minneapolis StarTribune

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