RaveThe Washington PostSvensson has, quite stunningly, discovered in the natural and human history of the European eel a metaphor for his father’s life and a way to explore questions of knowledge, belief and faith ... [a] revelatory, amusing, often poignant amalgam of science and family history[.]
Jonathan Evison
PanThe Christian Science MonitorThe consequences of such events in any particular life are of course enduring, but the prevalence of this vein of storytelling leaves us curiously impoverished. It is as if there can’t be such a thing as female failure without an alibi, and that strikes me as special pleading, if not condescension.
