RaveThe Washington PostA gifted comedic writer takes bona fide pieces of American history and uses them as occasions to go brilliantly bananas ... Petri’s use of borrowed forms, particularly in this book, is so skilled that it often communicates as much as the content itself ... In making her brilliant leaps, she successfully reformulates what can feel like horrible and overwhelming news, transforming it into something more manageable, not to mention hilarious, if only for a few precious minutes ... That Petri riffs on specific works of literature and historical events may limit the book’s appeal for some.
