MixedBOMB MagazineEven in this, her debut collection, Belle Boggs displays limitless empathy for her characters and their concerns and conflicts ...as modest as they are all-consuming, illustrating the type of lives forgotten about by the majority of Americans, showing readers how people live ... Mattaponi Queen falters when it rehashes the obvious and clichéd ... These may be realistic portrayals of life on the Reservation but they never show us anything unexpected or surprising. Luckily, such stories are few and far between, and for the most part, Boggs guides her characters down more nuanced paths ... Her superior attention to detail and yeoman-like prose is a joy to read on the page. People read debut story collections for exactly this reason: to witness firsthand the arrival of a talented new voice.
