PositiveThe New York Times Book Review...[a] heady and somber debut ... The architecture of the story is solid ... Apart from this, the novel features less of a plot than a collection of characters, all of whom bear their own secrets and hurts ... Each character has a story to tell, though sometimes these are lost in Matalone’s superseding mission: to catalog all the ways in which a house can function as a metaphor ...Though Matalone sometimes struggles to balance the theoretical with good storytelling, it’s nevertheless exciting to see her wrestle so artfully with her ideas.
