PositiveHarper\'s... dissonant and fragmented in the manner of Twitter, nuggets of gossip and glosses on the news interspersed with the highly personal ... Lockwood’s book...abounds with the angular frequencies of love ... The sensibility of the book’s first half leaks into the urgent present; the first half teaches us to read the second ... Lockwood, disenchantment with the internet is real but not permanent or nihilistic. She still finds in it blips of magic and surprises ... The tragedy at the book’s center unfolds as senselessly and unpredictably as the scroll in the portal. Lockwood’s exuberance and empathy are omnivorous, suited to any subject, and have produced a novel that is ferocious and also delicate, a celebration of one brief life gone too early to God.
