„A rarity: a first -love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like. Achingly beautiful.” – TIME
„In telling his story, which includes beautifully rendered memories of the small brutalities that parents inflict upon their children and siblings upon each other, Thompson describes the ecstasy and ache of the obsession (with a lover, with God) and is unafraid to suggest the ways that obsession can consume itself and evaporate.” – The New York Times Book Review