RaveHaaretzFull of masterful prose and wit ... Koestenbaum is a stylist who writes with elegance, nerve and dexterity, leading me to read sentences two or three times over simply because I enjoyed them so much ... Koestenbaum\'s prose, with all its manners and absurdities, always buoys the story, and his ending packs the emotional punch to pull everything together.
RaveJewish Book CouncilHeather Clark is an accomplished writer of literary history, and the simplicity of the premise of her debut novel proves deceptive ... Sentence by sentence, Clark builds Anna and Cristoph’s dynamic—sexy, slightly masochistic, and always propulsive. Her reserved, elegant prose nails the rending, intoxicating nausea of first love without being cloying.
