"My Perfect Life is [Barry's] finest, funniest, most affecting graphic novel to date, partly because she's perfected her draughtsmanship, but also because it observes the Aristotelian dramatic unities, sort of."-Entertainment Weekly
"Barry's carefully chosen words and scribbly drawings capture the melodramatic fantasies and insecurities of adolescence more accurately than most conventional novels do."-
Los Angeles Times "What a trip back to middle school this read was, with the long phone calls, the cord stretching to the bedroom for privacy, and the endless notes passed to friends... I felt that this collection was the most satisfying of Barry's collections." –
Youth Services Book Review