“Carmody deftly captures the complexities of faith, family, class, girlhood—how they make and break us—and the cataclysm of reconceiving who we are. Hers is a vital and singular voice.” —Mona Awad
“As the fig tree needs the fig wasp, so it is that the formally dense, deeply intimate fictions of Teresa Carmody thrive on the invasion of essay, memoir, and even drawing through their branches.” —Jonathan Lethem
“Measurement and gossip support the mythology these lovers confect to explain the lesbian miracle of themselves to themselves and to others.” —Robert Glück
