Freud is brilliant at capturing the time in a personal and a global sense ... The details are so vivid you feel like you’re remembering the events yourself ... Highly impressive.
Accomplished ... Billed as a novel but arguably occupies an interesting grey area between novel and memoir, resisting the expectations of both and creating something all of its own ... Interesting ... It’s a fascinating tangle of fact and fiction that refuses easy answers, and a subtle, clever, evocative book.
She delivers satisfaction in the book’s full-circle conclusion which connects past and present in several forms, explores abiding psychologies, and addresses the repetitive pattern. A deft, smart, indulgent work that delivers—finally—its necessary integration.