PositiveThe New YorkerIn a certain sense, Fedorova’s project is of the best kind: it takes our most uncanny attractions and reveals their eminent humanity ... Sexuality can be a \'gateway drug\' for playing with our relationships to ourselves and our environments, Fedorova writes. In this, she’s wonderfully persuasive; less convincing is her proposal that fetishists have some kind of empowered relationship to the material world.
Sally Rooney
RaveThe Washington PostWe’re thrust into a rhythmically fragmented voice, more critical and self-assured but no less elegant. In fact, everything about this novel — its style, theme, length — shows less ruthless restraint than Rooney’s previous books. Poetry and emotion overspill their containers ... There’s something brilliant and refreshing in Rooney’s choice to follow the private love affairs of two siblings once so closely connected ... A story set in the immediate aftermath of loss throws her melancholic, inhibited characters into such high relief.
