" So Much Pretty is a fearless first novel," announced The New York Times Book Review , "for all the passion in this intense narrative, Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain." Set in a rural community steeped in silence and denial, So Much Pretty explores all parents' greatest fear, that their child will be hurt. But it also examines a second, equally troubling question: What if my child hurts someone else? The disappearance and...