RaveThe New York Times... the stuff all good bildungsromans are made of ... What starts as a story about romantic love quickly turns into one about the power of community, how the people we surround ourselves with can together be the great love of our life ... Mathews has a wonderful eye for the things that make friendship and community just as valuable as romance — and also for how friends can come together and fall apart just as easily as the lovers in a romantic comedy ... proves the corny adage true: Perhaps the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. Mathews has a big heart and a sharp tongue.