"Funny...lively and wry, insightful and poignant. [A] psychedelic and unsettling journey into a Southern heart of darkness."– Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Funny and touching...Ellen's voice is immensely likable, start to finish-deadpan funny, smart, and on to herself." – Boston Globe
"Blanche Boyd is irreplaceable. There is no cast of mind with quite the same savor, no humor quite so droll, no insights which reverberate in quite the same pitch. Her style [is] sure, true, and vastly pleasurable." – Robert Stone