RavePRISM (CAN)Bina is delightfully, darkly funny and seems to have a distinctly Irish sensibility. The language is both conversational and deeply inventive. It succeeds completely at bringing us into Bina’s world ... The novel is a moving portrait of a friendship and the complicated calculations, ethical and interpersonal, that attend to witnessing another’s pain ... I began the book amused by Bina’s brusque manner, her cynicism and misanthropy, but I ended it feeling emotionally devastated. Bina may be a novel of warnings, but what it ultimately warns us of is the messiness, heartbreak, and, yes, humour that comes with existence. Bina is a comic and affecting cri de coeur from one of society’s ignored.
