PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of booksOne hallmark of [Danicat\'s] mastery of prose is a gift for juxtaposition, the way she coaxes beauty from pain. Like one of her most famous characters, a Duvalier-era torturer known as the Dew Breaker, she soothes, then wounds with words, nudging the expectancy of pregnancy against the defeat of dying ... If a few of the stories feel distant, this is not the case for the powerful final piece, \'Without Inspection,\' in which Everything Inside’s existence-precedes-essence philosophy plays out literally ... Each of the eight stories in Everything Inside is tragic in its own way. The last two stories are the strongest, the best showcases for Danticat’s talent, but the finale, \'Without Inspection,\' brought me to tears.
