Suzanne Matson was born in Portland, Oregon, and studied at Portland State University and the University of Washington. Her first novel, The Hunger Moon, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her third, The Tree–Sitter, was short–listed for the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Award. She has published two poetry collections with Alice James Books, teaches at Boston College, and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Praise for Ultraviolet
"This unostentatious yet intricate novel follows the women of a
family across nearly a century . . . Domestic scenes emit blasts of
emotional life, as the women grapple with the 'swooning collapse
and then the expanding distance' between their interior lives and
the outside world." —The New Yorker
“This gorgeous novel examines the complexities of the
mother–daughter relationship.”— Real Simple
"This sprawling, beautiful novel follows the lives of three
generations of women. . . It's an emotional, poignant look at the
ways in which our dreams for ourselves often fall apart, and how
even lives that seem quietly lived are filled with profound
meaning." —Kristin Iversen, NYLON
“Explores the lives of several generations of one family across
America and overseas—and in doing so ventures to unexpected
emotional states.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“Fascinating and stirring . . . . Matson glides through her
characters’ lives in almost self–contained chapters punctuated by
explosions of burnished emotion . . . . Readers will latch onto the
unforgettable characters of this accomplished saga of the shifting
personal and historical complications of American
womanhood.”—Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
“Fans of Anne Tyler and Geraldine Brooks will enjoy the
intertwined, intergenerational narratives, historical details, and
emotional depth of this engrossing novel.”—Booklist
“Matson's chapters, each of which jumps forward in time, conclude
with an especially poignant reflection on aging, as Samantha cares
for her dying mother in her final days. This is a stoic view of
mother–daughter love: an unsentimental reflection on both the
tribulations and the importance of filial connection.”—Kirkus
“From its wonderful opening in 1930s India, Suzanne Matson's
beautifully accurate and illuminating Ultraviolet follows the fates
of three generations of American women, along the shifting borders
of safety and freedom. As time carries them past risks and refuges,
the reader is left with a shimmering sense of lives lived.”—Joan
Silber, author of Improvement
“Capacious, unsentimental and yet forgiving, Ultraviolet brings us
both the intimacy of women's lives and their trajectories across
continents and generations. This is Suzanne Matson at her wisest
and deepest—wonderful.”—Gish Jen, author of The Girl at the Baggage
Claim
“Acutely, elegantly, Suzanne Matson traces her characters' paths
from the hills of colonial India to the suburban American west to
the dislocated excesses of an Alaska cruise ship. Here are the
women in a family and the impact they have—or fail to have—on one
another. And here, in the silences between vivid moments, we see
how years pass, how lives pass, how a century passes.”—Joan
Wickersham, author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index
"A beautiful, passionate, utterly absorbing novel."—Margot Livesey,
author of Mercury
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