RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewWoven through this story are enough characters and plotlines to fill several more novels, but Sanders handles the abundance of material with restraint ... Sometimes she dips quickly in and out of a time and place; other times she lingers, immersing us so fully in a setting or dynamic that I’d forget there were other eras and characters waiting for the spotlight ... Sanders’s narrative shifts gorgeously through time and place to reveal all that’s been passed down through generations of Lambs.
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewBlistering, wise, empathetic ... Mottley has brought the physicality and pain and beauty of birth and new motherhood into the light. That she has done so by way of teenage girls who have too often been shamed and shunned and told to hide themselves away makes her novel all the more vital to behold.
Kate Fagan
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewWritten in frank, conversational language, pleasing in its familiarity but largely undifferentiated across its many points of view ... Propulsive.
