“With each new piece Febos bends time. As she explores her past, recalling her brother’s struggles with mental health or her family’s trip to Egypt to visit her sea-captain father, she builds on the story of her fraying relationship with Amaia, with each essay serving as a foundation for the next … For me, some of her most resonant passages come in the first essay, ‘The Book of Hours.’ Shifting through different parts of her life, Febos describes the shelter she has always taken in stories … No subject is off-limits to Febos. She authorizes her reader to be braver, to dig deeper into their own secrets and to research those secrets in history. It is the act of keeping secrets that is dangerous, not the act of telling them. Confession is freedom. In combining research with her narrative, Febos is staking claim to her own existence.”
–Kea Krause, The Rumpus, February 16, 2017
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