"A book that hurts but with a beauty and humane poetry that allows for nostalgia and sweetness."
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La Voce di Pistoia
“Depicts objects in a stunningly, almost freakishly precise way, coaxing the metaphysical to express itself through the material … In The Year of the Comet, coming of age is not about first love, or the discovery of sexuality, it is rather about the fatefulness of action.”
The Times Literary Supplement