PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of Books\"Thematic resonances notwithstanding, Nutting doesn’t bring it all together until the novel’s 300 pages are nearly up...Not to worry, though — the shambolic, strings-showing style is part of Made for Love’s deranged charm, a sort of radical transparency between author and reader that says, as long as you’re someone who delights in this brand of pleasant experience, let’s not make a big deal about fine-toothed structure ... yes, Nutting’s novel both showcases and epitomizes a working definition of hot mess — but with this novel there can be no disputing that she is funny as hell.\
Kevin Canty
PositiveBOMBCanty is a skilled observer of his female characters, rendering them well, and of the space they make for themselves. Lyle, meanwhile, starts as essentially a cipher before gradually emerging on the page through his personal longing in the thick of the mine's darkness. The other men—Malloy, Ray, Ray and David's father, and more—remain, to greater and lesser degrees, inaccessible, and this is no doubt the author's choice, the kind of shadow his novel throws ... The Underworld evokes with great spirit the wide-open feeling of Idaho, the small humans populating it with their outsized dramas that shout through the pervading silence, the ever-presence of televised Nixon and cigarettes and clouds in the sky. Canty's talent is the kind that doesn't call attention to itself, and without contextual info it's easy enough, for a New Yorker at least, to believe the novel was written by a native.