"Shihor takes risks in her choice of form as well as content: her preferred genres–the fable, the aphorism, the novella–have been, historically, unconventional in Western literature, and the stories she chooses to tell hint at an unsettling tension and artificiality at the base of the society that emerged from the twentieth-century. ... The essential thing is to have the courage and honesty to examine our lives with a clear and steady eye, and this is exactly the gift Shihor so gracefully offers us through her fiction."– "Asymptote"