RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewExtraordinary ... The four sections of the novel, though disparate, bleed into one another in the reader’s mind ... I was in awe of Deb’s imagination and razor-sharp prose ... That the novel invokes a glorious past, hints at a utopian future and contradicts reality could be the author’s way to protest an authoritarian government skilled in just that.
Henry Marsh
PositiveThe Washington PostPoignant and thought-provoking ... Marsh’s honesty is disarming ... It is these sorts of insights — exploring his fallibility, his shortcomings and even his complicity in an uncaring system — that make Marsh’s writing so powerful and that allow him to transcend the usual pathography. Even so, some of his observations about medicine feel as though they shouldn’t be as much of a revelation to him as they seem to be ... His book is an attempt to understand the questions, if not to come up with answers. As in his earlier works, Marsh’s exploration is intimate, insightful, witty and deeply moving ... With this book he has left readers of the future a work to savor and learn from.
