RaveThe GuardianThe raucous, heartbreaking, bawdy tales in JM Holmes’s debut collection possess an assured lyricism, uncompromising in its interrogation of race, class, drugs and family ... In the explosive opener ... the story culminates in a moment so brutally honest, so quietly ferocious, it left me dazed ... As with any collection, some stories are stronger than others. Holmes renders male characters with microscopic precision; the same level of nuance afforded to his female characters would have added even more depth ... he is a distinctive writer ... Spare in style, strikingly urgent, his is a voice to get excited about.
