RaveChicago Review of BooksA deceptively lean and impeccably crafted story ... The novel is haunting and humorous, full of wit, wordplay, and references that run the gamut from eighteenth-century art to IBM. Smith’s genre-expansive work doesn’t stop at simply exploring identity and conformity under late-stage capitalism within its plot ... Calls us to engage critically with both the tyranny of language and the ways in which language allows us to redefine the world and ourselves. Like every story of resistance, it unfurls from a single word.
