RaveJewish Book CouncilUrgent, funny, and wistful ... Wrenching ... Most of the stories in Schulman’s volume share [a] thrilling, rebellious tone ... Even toddlers, those embodiments of fascistic, irrational will, refuse to be suppressed in the Schulman canon: The Memoirs of Lucien hilariously gives life to the inner monologue of an id-ruled mini-tyrant. With both visions and revisions and a constant battle between restlessness and resignation, Helen Schulman’s new collection makes willing fools for love of us all. Her wild inner heart reaches out to our own, and as she says, \'who wouldn’t want a piece of that?\'
Gabrielle Zevin
RaveJewish Book Council... a fascinating fictional hybrid: a view into the intricate art and craft of video-game design, a poignant bildungsroman, and a love story. A prolific novelist, Gabrielle Zevin is equally comfortable with poetic language and computer coding concepts, and she excels at depicting the subtlest of human emotions ... This is the key to this novel’s wistful charm — the belief that \'tomorrow\' is always possible, and that, within that endless future, \'Love is all there is.\'
