Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.”—The New York Times
“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”—The Boston Globe
“A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.”—Newsweek
“Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.”—Chicago Tribune
“In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.”—John Updike, The New Yorker
“Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.”—Cosmopolitan
Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl is the latest in Hogarth’s series of Shakespearean classics retold by contemporary authors. With Vinegar Girl, Tyler (The Amateur Marriage) gives us her take on that classic tale of dating disagreeably, The Taming of the Shrew.