RaveCompulsive ReaderWith irony and compassion, Tishani Doshi takes on so many of the calamities of our modern world in this truly comprehensive collection ... The poems that address the treatment of women feel like Doshi’s most personal, the issue that strikes closest to home. Sometimes they are actually funny ... Like all of us, Doshi is looking for strategies for survival. Everything is tentative, provisional; she doesn’t claim to know the answers. But she’s an illuminating guide ... Tishani Doshi is a real pleasure to read for the casual sarcasm with which she considers the absurdities of existence.
Maria Romasco Moore
PositiveNorth of Oxford\"Subtitled An Album, Ghostographs is like the memoir of an alternate universe ... Moore casually sneaks in references to her most potent theme—the haunting of the past that leaks into the present ...
Moore introduces a number of memorable characters ... The final story, Ghost Town, is almost elegiac in tone ... Maria Romasco Moore has a vivid and empathetic imagination. Her stories honoring that very real alternate universe are a delight to read.\
Nicole Rivas
PositiveNorth of OxfordThese are all stories about girls navigating through some bizarre #Metoo world, at once victims and agents of their own fate ... The magic and the just plain weird aspects of these stories ... add up to a dark humor that takes the edge off the savage undercurrents, but the sheer menace just around the corner makes these stories extremely potent. This is a collection you will read straight through.
