into the pantheon of stories about female friendship' -
Publishers Weekly'Alharthi mines rich material with her details of Omani history . . . A book about searching for love - both parental and romantic - and reckoning with the past' -
Kirkus ReviewsPraise for
Celestial Bodies'Bright and illuminating' -
Wall Street Journal'A treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets' -
The New York Times Book Review'The great pleasure of reading
Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct' -
New Yorker'Breathtaking, layered, multigenerational . . . Follows the lives of three sisters from a small village at a time of rapid social and economic change in Oman. The tale is replete with history, poetry, and philosophy, but also slavery, broken marriages, passion, and not- so- secret lovers' -
The Atlantic'A rich, dense web of a novel . . . Alharthi constructs a tapestry of interlocking lives, some seen over the course of decades, others at just a single pungent moment. Rarely have I encoun-tered a work of fiction in which form and idea were so inseparably, and appropriately, fused' -
New York Review of Books 
