RaveThe Paris ReviewWith a mesmeric voice and scathing vulnerability, Shalmiyev peels her past down to its hollow core ... Across time and geography, Shalmiyev stitches together the diffuse pieces of her fractured narrative in order to find out what it truly is that makes someone the right \'type\' of woman, the right \'type\' of mother—especially as she becomes a mother herself.
Madhuri Vijay
RaveThe Paris ReviewA ghastly secret lies at the heart of Madhuri Vijay’s stunning debut, and every chapter beckons us closer to discovering it ... chafes against the useless pity of outsiders and instead encourages a much more difficult solution: cross-cultural empathy.
