"If Kerouac were writing today, his work might look something like this--and despite the title, many of the stories are indeed ours, as they focus on love and loss, pain and yearning.... This is a fierce, untamed, riotous book--and from the first page you'll know you're not reading Jane Austen." --Kirkus

"...[I]t is apparent that Goebel has announced himself as a proud new talent and of stronger voice than most of the writers, bless them, working to further the forms of the novel." --Southeast Review

"Goebel's tour de force swiftly seduced me, and I set aside my own experience in order to ride his loop out past the farther planets and back to the heart's interior." --Brooklyn Rail

"Goebel is clearly a very talented writer, and his experiment in this collection is noble." --Publishers Weekly