★ "Inspired by a heartbreaking true story, De Gregorio's remarkably restrained novel follows the events that ripple out in the aftermath of tragedy... A quietly devastating but somehow hopeful tale."–Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Gorgeously written and utterly devastating."–CrimeReads, A Best Book of 2022
"There's a great deal of intrigue...which builds on an unsettling theme of horror churning beneath the surface. This will transfix readers."–Publishers Weekly
"The book's spine is absence–absence of setting, absence of characters, absence of plot–and its structure reflects this absence."–Reading in Translation
"From a tragic true story, a book about love and the saving power of words."–Panorama
"Like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, De Gregorio takes a true story and reveals what life cannot. Extraordinary."–Grazia
"Moving and intense."–Il Piccolo