"A small miracle . . . I Who Have Never Known Men is about as heavyhearted as fiction can get."–The New York Times
"Mesmerizing . . . The book's austere mystery–the atrophied and gelid world it depicts–provides a richly allusive consideration of human life."–Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books
"A consistently gripping experience."―Times Literary Supplement
"Like Kafka with a dash of Ursula Le Guin, this story is part mystery, part science fiction, and all literature."–Booklist
"Immediately reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale."–Kirkus Reviews
"Reading I Who Have Never Known Men forces the reader to contemplate what an immense privilege it is to be able to read books at all."–Emily Gould, The Cut
"[I] couldn't put it down. . . . It's a deceptively simple but wholly propulsive story that explores the interplay between memory, patriarchy and solidarity."–Laila Lalami, author of The Dream Hotel
"[A] riveting narrative . . . Carefully crafted, this novel is both unusual and thought-provoking."–Library Journal
"Unlike other science fiction or fantasy novels, this is a universe without an invented order: there is no known infrastructure, no reveal, no men hiding behind a curtain. It is the simplicity of the writing that makes my skin crawl, so eerie in its absences."–Haley Mlotek, Frieze
"[An] eerily evocative novel . . . this intriguingly dark thought experiment told by a compellingly alien voice–dispassionate and unfussy–is strangely fascinating."–Lucy Scholes, The Times
