"A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering. . . .I'd go anywhere with this writer." –Susannah Meadows, The New York Times
"So fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe... Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park." –The Boston Globe
"A lyrical and fiercely accomplished first novel...In Hassman's skilled hands, what could have been an unrelenting chronicle of desolation becomes a lovely tribute to the soaring, defiant spirit of a survivor." –People
"Moments of strange beauty enhance our sense of the Calle community....[Hassman] makes Rory's milieu feel universal." –Megan Mayhew Bergman, The New York Times Book Review
"Powerful...Rory transcends her bleak situation through dark humor and unaccountable smarts." –San Francisco Chronicle
"This amazing debut spills over with love, but is still absolutely unflinching and real." –Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
