“Powerfully written . . . . Factor reveals this arresting tale through solid character development and a well-paced narrative. From its tense opening chapter to its memorable conclusion, this is a read-in-one-sitting trip.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Compelling . . . a poignant picture of familial and romantic love and their complexities.”
—Library Journal

One of The L Magazine‘s 50 Books You’ll Want to Read This Spring and Summer

“Memorable and touching . . . a commendable achievement that captures the interrelation of fear and love in the unbalanced reality of modern adulthood.”
—San Francisco Book Review

“Entertaining and suspenseful.”
—Coal Hill Review

“A quick and absorbing read that deals with love, relationships, and art and I highly recommend this brief yet intense novel.”
—The Book Binder’s Daughter

“[Factor] creates vibrant characters who struggle against love.”
—A New Day

“Who can plot the turns and reversals of the heart? Who can follow its illogical loyalties and mysterious obsessions? Who can reconcile its competing claims from lovers and family? Eliza Factor, that’s who, in this stunningly assured novel about a pair of sisters—one a successful artist, the other a famous singer—and the handsome architect who comes between them. The cover should come with a warning to put your life on hold for a few days, because once you pick it up, you won’t be able to do anything else until you finish.”
—Bliss Broyard, author of One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets

“Eliza Factor’s second novel is a beautiful and uplifting journey through the New York art scene of the 1980s, as lived by one true artist. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a character more fully and honestly revealed across the pages of a book than Sarah Marker. A stunning and original exploration of family, romantic love, and the possibility of healing.”
—Joseph Weisberg, creator/executive producer of The Americans (FX Network)

“By turns lyrical and flinty, searching and suspenseful, Love Maps is animated by the strivings and travails of characters who seek (and find) the real and the true, the territory instead of the map.”
—Thad Ziolkowski, author of Wichita

“Eliza Factor’s Love Maps is a delight, and I read it with mounting pleasure and admiration. It feels strange to think of Love Maps as a pleasure—this is, after all, a book that captures in technicolor detail the pain and vulnerability that come with just about every variety of human relationship. But prose this witty and psychologically deft, and structures this intricate and heartbreaking, don’t come around often.”
—Ben Dolnick, author of At the Bottom of Everything

“The tone and tension in Love Maps is expertly drawn. Between sisters and lovers, artists and architects, mothers and sons, and—of all things—people and ashes, Eliza Factor has managed to tell the truest kind of story: about the inconvenience of love, and the choices people make when they’re most afraid.”
—Amanda Stern, author of The Long Haul

Praise for The Mercury Fountain:

“Eliza Factor’s first novel, The Mercury Fountain, explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature . . . Factor counters convention with a sharp sense of character, evocative subplots, and the dangerous allure of mercury itself.”
—New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)