"Harpman says here all there is to say about dignity and the difficulty of remaining human in the face of suffering."–Le Quotidien
"I Who Have Never Known Men is about as heavyhearted as fiction can get, but all the loneliness and oblivion of a deserted world won't stop us from following the narrator as far as she can go. We may share the nameless young woman's frustration when she learns that freedom is not enough, but each revelation that directs her steps is a small miracle."–The New York Times
"Carefully crafted, this novel is both unusual and thought-provoking."–Library Journal
"Beautifully written..."–Booklist
"It is surprising that a book with the psychological detail of a nightmare elicits in the reader feelings of such profound intensity."–Le Monde
"The delirium of I Who Have Never Known Men suggests the work of a feminine Kafka."–Le Nouvel Observateur
"Like Kafka with a dash of Ursula Le Guin, this story is part mystery, part science fiction, and all literature: beautifully written and thoughtfully meditating on how we know what we know and why we act certain ways."–Kevin Grandfield
"Paradoxically, the book's austere mystery–the atrophied and gelid world it depicts–provides a richly allusive consideration of human life."–Deborah Eisenberg for The New York Review of Books
