PositiveThe Women’s Review of Books...an ambitious literary debut ... The things humans shed—hair, tears, blood, viruses—take on magical properties in The Old Drift. A character cries a river of tears every day after her lover leaves her, for instance, and Sibilla’s hair can only described as supernatural ... Generations bleed one into the next, seeking solid ground ... Bearing children is the downfall of so many of the women in this story, the moment when their lives begin to unravel ... Serpell’s novel imagines a future where the problems of one generation are addressed by people who have made an effort to learn from the past. What a novel idea.
