"The late Italian novelist Jarre reflects on her life in this kaleidoscopic memoir, here appearing in English for the first time ... Gems of language and ideas abound ... Lyrical prowess ... Haunting prose."
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Publishers Weekly
“Assulin lays bare the emotional distress of a person, any person, and the world’s inability to understand it except by means of mechanical categories from the field of psychiatry.”
Benny Ziffer, Haaretz