Allison is an able and gifted storyteller, looking back on this time with a kind of awe that she passes onto the reader as she unspools her quiet story with heart, humor, and hard-earned wisdom.
Haphazard ... Allison’s wry humor and searching nature make her a companionable narrator, but the plot sputters as the focus jarringly shifts ... A mixed bag.
A novel with many threads that never quite come together ... This hard-to-pin-down novel tackles too much...without enough charm or depth to pull it off. While a few of these topics might have made for an engaging quarterlife-crisis novel, none of them has room to breathe here, and the author gives too much space to subplots that don’t add much ... A story that falls flat.
