"Most enjoyable by far is the feast of descriptive prose that Tripier lays before her readers. Every sense is appealed to in an effective bid to emulate childlike discovery and wonder. A very fine novel and an auspicious debut." --The French Review

"It's rare to say it, but everything about this book is good: its luminous and simple prose, its original structure, divided by seasons, that remixes the evocations, the memories, the characters, in every chapter." --Culture-Tops.fr

"Delightful... A poetic and melancholic contemplation of what life may be." -- ActuaLitté

"One would think it the book of a young poet written by an old soul. The structure is admirable. Chronological and cyclical, it gives the sharp sense of the transience of life..." --Le Figaro

"A sweeping family saga as well as a philosophical reflection on old age and the passage of time... An astonishing novel for the candor of its prose and the depth of its content, which stands out even more considering it was written by a young woman in her early twenties, already possessing such a savvy and sharp perspective, capable of describing with such precision the chiaroscuro of an aged body and a torn mind, both obsessed with a past that inevitably can never return."--Il Foglio (Italy)