PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewPresented in tense, terse fragments of scenes ... Power and resistance, right and wrong: Saar eradicates these binaries by exploring the edges and corners of his characters’ morality ... Saar’s prose soars as the six split off from one another, forge ahead and then come back together in more tender moments—all the while trying desperately to express their freedom ... The honest, nuanced correspondence between the mothers of the executed adulterers—a space they’ve made to process unimaginable pain—strengthens a novel that concerns itself with finding freedom where there seems to be none.
