RaveWorld Literature TodayKaminsky’s language is accessible, yet it runs on a logic that feels of a different place. It sings with a necessary freshness ... Sign-language illustrations appear intermittently throughout the book...This offers a respite, making the book appear as safe as a manual or a children’s story. The weight of what the poems tell us is almost eased. But behind these illustrations are palmfuls of tension as well as collective grief and anger ... The narrative is parceled out in lines and poems that expertly manipulate space. We can’t escape the horror because it exists again from a new perspective or on yet another page ... yet, there is joy in this harrowing story of fragility and limited rights ... While deftly describing an imaginary place, this book seems to dangle us over the precipice of the here and now, to push us to see the equal and opposite forces that reflect how broken we are and how we manage to go on. We see so clearly even how we turn away from what we can’t bear to see.
