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''A mesmeric, enrapturing read'' Eimear McBride
''Beautiful and original'' Colm Tóibín
''In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish''s combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition'' Ilana Masad, NPR
''Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously) . . . It swallowed me up, and then all at once, a word or a phrase would reach me like a bolt of lightning, charring and electrifying me all through'' Jo Niederhoff, Seattle Book Review
''Resembles something by Joyce or Samuel Beckett . . . A highly original and powerfu
