“[Bennett’s] ferociously moving debut lives up to its title, never once allowing readers a simplistic view of the maternal pain at its center … Bennett sets up a delicious trick by allowing the mothers their say and then immediately shifting to the perspective of a single character … Despite Bennett’s thrumming plot, despite the snap of her pacing, it’s the always deepening complexity of her characters that provides the book’s urgency.”
–Mira Jacob, The New York Times Book Review, November 2, 2016
