"Wonderful... Holds riches for all. Longtime fans will celebrate the very fact of more Diski and thrill to familiar preoccupations in new settings and shapes... Those who read Diski for the first time are in for the delight of discovery." – Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs and The Hearts of Men
"Mysterious, beguiling, and quietly radical, readers everywhere are lucky to live in a moment when they can discover, or rediscover, her eccentric charm."
– Alexandra Kleeman, author of Intimations
"If you don't know Jenny Diski's impressive body of work–six travel memoirs and two volumes of essays–read the British writer's brilliant posthumous collection...gorgeous, unruly." – Elle
"[Shows] that whether writing nonfiction or fiction, Diski remained witty, subversive and determined to tell her truth even when it was difficult." – Washington Post
"Sharp, funny, clever...There's much to admire in the book–the energy of the prose, the playfulness with which Diski approaches her stories." – New York Review of Books
"It's hard for me to imagine a reader exposed to Jenny Diski's writing who wouldn't be hooked... Her prose conveys the illusion of a spontaneous monologue, a mind mainlined onto the page... Her life was material. She was her writing, the sum of it a masterpiece." – New York magazine
"Caustically funny and ebullient stories. . . . Diski's is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the forest for others to follow." – Vanity Fair
"Rich with caustic wit and playful invention." – O, the Oprah Magazine
"Glimmers like found treasure–or a mirage...insightful, imaginative, and wryly clever... Regal, raunchy, revealing–the stories in this collection leave a lasting impression." – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Excellent. . . . Diski displays hard-edged humor, incisive perceptions, and a lively imagination." – Publishers Weekly
"Each story is told in Diski's clear, authoritative voice and explores how women strain (or not) against the bounds of a confining world. A great introduction to Diski's works." – Library Journal