"Ms. Block's far-ranging free association has been controlled and shaped ... with sensual characters. the language is inventive Californian hip, but the pattern are compactly folkloristic and the them is transcendent". -- The New York Times Book Review

"Magic is everywhere in Block's lyrical and resonant fables, which always point back to the primacy of family, friends, love, location, food and music. At once modern and mythic, her series deserves as much space as it can command of daydream nation's shrinking bookshelves". -- The Village Voice

"Block's extravagantly imaginative setting and finely honed perspectives remind the reader that there is magic everywhere". -- Publishers Weekly