Ventura does an excellent job of slowly escalating the narrator's neuroses ... And yet the book, while disturbing, is also very funny ... Will have you thinking hard about the meaning of love.
A sexually charged contemporary drama, crackling with marital intrigue and domestic unease ... Darkly humorous ... An incisive character study of a woman's complicated interiority, her manic, manipulative behavior concealed beneath a perfectly composed exterior ... Brilliant.
Irresistible ... Ramadan’s exacting translation grips the attention, and what makes this so thrilling is not just the narrator’s surprising ruthlessness but how Ventura causes the reader to repeatedly change their mind about who’s to blame for the messed up marriage—right up to to the explosive ending. It’s a bold and memorable first outing.
