PositiveThe Colorado ReviewIf you can get past the knot of generational descriptors, geographical locations, and time periods, you will be richly rewarded with a deeply moving, lyrical contemplation of family history, individual identity, and home—one that lingers in your mind long after the book is over ... These moments of blankness are just as profound as Myint’s prose, serving as a visual for the irretrievable and unknowable, the vast silences between the stories and the people ... The technical and lyrical acrobatics of the book (shifts between first and third person, imagined feelings and thoughts of family members long gone or never known to her, fresh interpretations of myths, etymological twists and turns) all serve as tools for the author to interrogate the questions that most haunt her.
