"Truly an up-all-night read."
--Adriana Leshko, The Washington Post

"Mr. Henkin writes with a winningly anachronistic absence of showiness.... This is just a lifelike, likable book populated by three-dimensional characters who make themselves very much at home on the page."
--Janet Maslin, New York Times

"[A] charming novel ... Henkin keeps you reading with original characters, witty dialogue and a view that marriage, for all its flaws, is worth the trouble."
--Tom Fields-Meyer, People

"Radiates the kind of offbeat shoulder-shrugging charm that made Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh so memorable.... [Matrimony] gets to you and stays with you."
--Kirkus Reviews

"In this classically composed second novel of a couple who meet and fall in love at their liberal arts college in the Berkshires, Henkin, much praised for Swimming Across the Hudson (1997), sensitively examines the 15 years of love and marriage that follow."
--Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"[Henkin] builds a deeply affecting portrait of a marriage, tracing its evolution over the course of 20 years.... In this heartfelt homage to the risks and rewards of marriage, Henkin never artificially amps up his material, instead allowing the quiet accumulation of his characters' shared experiences to create for his readers a world they will recognize and relate to."
--Booklist

"[Henkin" is able to explore in depth a surprisingly wide array of issues universal to the experiences of marriage.... It is a testament to Matrimony's redemptive power that at the end of the novel, despite all the difficulties the characters face, the reader might still want to get, or stay, married."
--Adam Goldwyn, Small Spiral Notebook

"Henkin movingly explores marriage, friendship, and the many ways we love and hurt each other.... Poignant.... Readers who loved Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety will find echoes [in Matrimony.]"
--Cindy Crosby, Bookreporter

"Takes a good look at love, friendship, and marriage from the Reagan years to the new century."
--Library Journal

"Joshua Henkin has written a powerfully moving book about so many of the big things: romantic love, abiding friendship, commitment, betrayal, loss, hope, regret. Matrimony is a novel at once sprawling and economical -- an elegant excavation of the human spirit."
--Dani Shapiro, author of Black and White

"Joshua Henkin's Matrimony is a deliciously old-fashioned novel. With no gimmicks, no tricks, Henkin gives us a cast of complex, flawed, utterly real characters, exploring their inner lives with an astonishing sureness of touch. Beautifully written and deeply felt, Matrimony is a miracle of intelligence and heart."
--Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening

"The rich rewards of dailyness, the complexity of ordinary human connection, the unexpected ways that love endures, and the frequently hilarious ironies of modern life are on full display in this warm-hearted, clear-eyed novel. Henkin's portrait of a marriage is a portrait of us all."
--Stacey D'Erasmo, author of Tea

"With vibrant intelligence, Matrimony looks at the mystery of how a couple stays together and the ways even the most privileged among us are subject to the disasters wrought by our incalculable natures. A luminous tale, eloquently told."
--Joan Silber, author of National Book Award Finalist Ideas of Heaven