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Book Reviews
[I]n this young girl’s world, times are tough and drugs provide the only means for making a lucrative living..... The setup is promising, but all the characters remain two-dimensional.... Morris has kept her heroine at arm’s length, and therefore she, and the book as a whole, devolves into a slick romanticism of poverty, youth, and violence.
Publishers Weekly
A bleak novel of poverty and drugs in rural North Carolina, reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor but without a redemptive vision. At the center of the action is 13-year-old Nikki, whose mother dies at the beginning of the novel..... Morris writes brilliantly in short, spasmodic chapters, but her vision borders on despair.
Kirkus Reviews