"Heroine is more a work of reading than of writing, it is all studio, by which I mean it's something fabulously risky and alive. It's literature and the possibility of it." -Eileen Myles, The Paris Review
"Heroine sounds like Montreal, mingling French and English, often in the same sentence, the same breath. The city vibrates in these pages, as Gail immerses us in the Plateau of the seventies." - Montreal Review of Books
"Heroine is a daring, sensual, important book. It's wild, sometimes raw, sexual, solitary. A literary gem. A feminist classic." -Melissa Bull, Maisonneuve
"The prose is photographically precise and masterfully cadenced, but its construction is so light and fluid that it almost resembles free association." -Lettres Québécoises
"The texture of Heroine – dense with the images, smells, and sounds of the city – is the texture of the world absorbed through all the pores of a woman's body." -The Village Voice
