RaveThe Washington Independent Review of BooksThere is a compelling symmetry at play here, with the opening and closing stories exploring what it means to step through the threshold of pubescence and into socially defined gender roles ... Krauss’ fiction is not speculative, not in the technical sense. But there is a wondrous playfulness at work that will appeal to fans of that genre ... What fascinates me is the granular texture of these stories, so full of divine detail that they unfold like the stuff of memoir. The centrifugal core of this collection is the author’s sensibility, the transcendent lucidity of her prose, and the exactness of her world-building. Her stories are anchored in a reality so densely and meticulously textured that they sometimes read like autobiographical fiction, even if the events described seem larger than life ... Each story offers Krauss’ unique lens, held up to situations that look ordinary at first glance ... a collection to get lost in. And when one emerges on the other side, the world still shimmers with possibility.
Chaya Bhuvaneswar
PositiveFiction Writers Review\"Bhuvaneswar’s characters—even the most \'minor\' among them—share insuppressible desire and agency, electric and life-affirming in its unpredictability ... Each of Bhuvaneswar’s characters are writing their own stories, making space for themselves in their respective worlds. As a reader, it is tremendously satisfying to witness this agency, this insistent claiming of one’s own body and circumstances—particularly in the collection’s kaleidoscopic range of characters, settings, and time periods.\
