[4] This novel takes place in the seven days after Pen O'Grady's lover, Cara Wall, has been killed in a car accident.

Stonewall Book Award 1997[5] Shortly after release, Hood was reviewed in the New York Times[6] and Boston Globe.

[7] The New York Times called it "charming" and said Donoghue "dip[s] into the ordinary with control and the occasional sustaining descriptive flashes of a born writer".

[6] Kirkus Reviews called it "profoundly moving," "an elegiac reconstruction of a long love affair," and a "spare, powerful narrative".

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