PositiveThe Jewish Book CouncilCrosley is an especially funny writer, and she injects that humor into Lola’s sharp-eyed metaphors as our narrator ... In light of that, the minor \'flattening\' of Lola’s personality that accompanies the resolution at the end of the novel seems a little sad at first glance. But in a darkly comedic reminiscence Lola has with Clive at the tail end, Crosley seems instead to suggest that the ending we see is just one possible way forward out of many.
Deborah Levy
PositiveThe Jewish Book Council... [Levy] deftly moves between thoughts on her family and relationships to the works of art she loves ... Levy does not often discuss her Jewish history, but on a trip to Berlin she sees a disused shower head sitting incongruously in a restaurant, and it causes her to think of the atrocities her relatives faced in the Holocaust. The narrative moves on quickly, and Levy wonders if she should just \'leave things as they are,\' but by putting the moment in her book, she is working to reclaim the memory, ascribing more power to her writing than to the physical space.
