“A pitch-perfect comedy of manners set in the English department at a small New Brunswick university ... a welcome reminder that excellence is not the exclusive purview of grand historical narratives, high poetry, or experimental pyrotechnics.”

“... [P]ungently realistic, bolstered by hilarious set-piece scenes ... Coady's portrayal of the in-fighting and fierce competitions of the literary world is daring and brilliant.”

“Wickedly funny and devastatingly insightful, [Coady] births fully human characters and releases them joyfully into the wilds of real life. Her plots are tight, her language unpretentious. But what keeps us coming back is her genius with characterization ... a modern Canadian coming-of-age novel that is not to be missed.”