Has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April’s is one of the most memorable voices I’ve encountered in recent fiction: insouciant, observant, endlessly curious ... Sardonic, lacerating wit and Hudes’s brilliant depiction of a woman learning to transform her rage into something resembling transcendence.
Wrenching and mordant ... We never learn what happens to several characters ... But it makes sense that a novel about a woman brutally excising herself from her family does not provide neat closure.
Hudes tells a complicated story of womanhood and the built-up rage it takes to break down harmful generational cycles ... Hudes’s writing is lyrical, violent and raw ... A complex story that is entirely morally gray. It is a story of reclamation, but also of sacrifice and the good, the bad and the ugly that can come from finding yourself.
