"Yamada's insight into women's roles, identities, and attachments remains relevantly evergreen across cultures and decades." –Booklist, Starred Review
"This early feminist manga follows a suburban Tokyo woman as she navigates her relationship with an emotionally distant husband, her two maturing daughters and the fear of having been 'thrown away inside that empty vessel called the household." –
The New York Times "[Murasaki] moves with a spare poetry through daily routines and moments of solitude as a woman wrangles her children, chafes at the limitations of the housewife's role and wonders where half her life has gone." –
Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2022