Absolutely stunning. One of the great novels of the twentieth century, I think, and profoundly relevant to the present. It felt like liberation, meeting Abra.

An intricately, perfectly mapped journey into self-liberation. It ventures the question: how to live with, rather than against, oneself—an enormous, shimmering question that now lives inside me. I think it will for the rest of my days.

A haunting book, with an outstanding sense of place and inner space: unsettling as well as memorable.

The story is a painful inquiry into motherhood and alternate necessities, our truer natures — it isn’t a rejection of maternal love; it’s a rejection of social entrapment and the damage of stultifying roles.

A modern masterpiece: provocative, radical and deeply moving on motherhood and how we choose to build our lives.

I was gripped by this radical, deeply felt novel, finding myself increasingly immersed and moved by its fresh, insistent narrative of loss and becoming.