'Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don't come along very often . . . Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle'
NPR
Strange and powerful . . .It's a book brimming with longing, with heartbreak. It's a coming-of-age by coming into somebody else
The New York Times
Audacious... Smith's beautiful, poetic prose transforms this strange coming-of-age story into something wondrous
Daily Express, Best New Paperbacks of Summer 2020
'Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don't come along very often . . . Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle'
NPR
Strange and powerful . . .It's a book brimming with longing, with heartbreak. It's a coming-of-age by coming into somebody else
The New York Times
Audacious... Smith's beautiful, poetic prose transforms this strange coming-of-age story into something wondrous
Daily Express, Best New Paperbacks of Summer 2020
'Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don't come along very often . . . Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle'
NPR
Strange and powerful . . .It's a book brimming with longing, with heartbreak. It's a coming-of-age by coming into somebody else
The New York Times
Audacious... Smith's beautiful, poetic prose transforms this strange coming-of-age story into something wondrous