“Veronica Raimo is the only person whose prose has made me laugh out loud since I was a teenager.”—Zerocalcare
“An intimate, painful and sarcastic novel, one of the few things you can’t miss in this troubled and uncertain summer.”—Vanity Fair Italia
“Veronica Raimo… gifts us a desecrating and tender portrait of family that reels us in from the very first lines.”—Io Donna: Il Corriere della Sera
“Life’s obstacles enter Raimo’s novel and immediately become comedy thanks to her clear gaze and sharp writing.”—La Repubblica
“No one speaks with as much frankness and agility, no one knows how to dramatize with so little and without even a stage… Veronica Raimo is a stupendous comedian.”—La Stampa
“Veronica Raimo, protagonist and narrator, within this affectionate, highly explosive subject tells a story that nails us down with a powerful first person, clear and exhilarating.”—Marie Claire Italia
“Veronica Raimo manages to say with precision how difficult, uncertain, it is to exist. Thus one laughs a lot, and thanks to the fact that the writer does not, forgives oneself.”—Il Foglio
“I don’t think it’s possible to write a similar book without a certain abandon, without the right hand almost not knowing what the left is doing, without accepting a temporary condition of exaltation and thus oblivion of ones ego.”—Domani
“Raimo chooses irony and comedy as the perspective from which to depict herself in the most honest way possible and she succeeds, with a coming-of-age novel that ends with us all recognizing ourselves.”—Wired Italia
“The author wanders, jumps forward, stops, goes back, allowing herself an uncurtailed and marvelously unheard-of liberty. Many pages in this novel are so intense and unscrupulous that one feels the apprehension of being caught spying in a stranger’s mailbox.”—Esquire Italia
“There’s something heartbreaking in the grace with which Veronica Raimo lines up all the Great Themes of modern memoir… One feels like laughing and one feels like crying, not because of the content, but because of how Raimo writes it—because yes, the point of writing books is the writing.”—Harpers Bazaar Italia
“It is a real pleasure to witness from the front row this masterful variety show of one personality unfolding… How wonderful to be a woman in this world, uncertain, free of charge, and cheerfully problematic and because of this proud.”—Rivista Studio
“Raimo’s voice is original and true, and the Italian landscape needed it.”—L’Indiependente
“No one in Italy writes like Veronica Raimo.”—Le Frecce magazine