RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteGrounded and honest ... A virtuosic tour de force in carefully-constructed storytelling ... The family saga is both ambitiously sprawling and narrow in scope ... Rendered in propulsive third-person prose and short, breezy chapters ... An evocative use of zeugma ... It’s a story that sucks you into its world. ... I found Monife’s backstory the most compelling and emotionally affecting ... Perhaps Braithwaite’s greatest achievement is the deft blending of humor and gravity ... Braithwaite’s novel proves itself to be a haunting meditation on moral ambiguity ... I wished our characters were defined further beyond their relationships to men ... Nonetheless enchanting, sparkling with wit and tactfully straddling reality and the supernatural.
