PanThe Guardian\"Groff layers on the trauma so thick as to be implausible...[She] is a manipulator of information, who controls what the reader understands in a novel that is all about narration. She won high praise for a volume of short stories and two previous novels. Here, she has Mathilde express what is surely her own hankering for a \'messier, sharper\' fiction. Perhaps others will find more to admire than I did in this strange mashup of literary and pulp fiction.\
