RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteBy turns biting and breezy and self-referential ... Some storylines are prioritized over others, with long bouts of not hearing from certain characters ... The gaps ultimately feel intentional, though ... Yet there is no shortage of penetrating moments, either ... Every page of Cash’s debut novel is utterly absorbing, and her authorial voice is sure to win hearts and laughs. I know I’ll read whatever wry delight she pens next.
RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteGrounded and honest ... A virtuosic tour de force in carefully-constructed storytelling ... The family saga is both ambitiously sprawling and narrow in scope ... Rendered in propulsive third-person prose and short, breezy chapters ... An evocative use of zeugma ... It’s a story that sucks you into its world. ... I found Monife’s backstory the most compelling and emotionally affecting ... Perhaps Braithwaite’s greatest achievement is the deft blending of humor and gravity ... Braithwaite’s novel proves itself to be a haunting meditation on moral ambiguity ... I wished our characters were defined further beyond their relationships to men ... Nonetheless enchanting, sparkling with wit and tactfully straddling reality and the supernatural.
