“Characters are the crux of this breed of lively, unrestrained short fiction, and the cast in this book are endearing, gut-busting, and memorably real.” Chad Pelley, The Overcast.

“…the tone is pitch perfect. Appropriately restrained and conversational. Coles is not your average newbie. She’s a serious talent who deserves to be mentioned alongside other young Newfoundland writers like Joel Thomas Hynes and Sara Tilley.” Mike Heffernan, Atlantic Books Today

“Coles, whose background is in theatre and playwriting, is the real thing. Deft with prose, gifted with voices, writing from a wry, wise and empathetic perspective, she is undoubtedly part of the established tradition of fine Newfound short story-writing.” Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This blog

“The stories are often very short, even only four pages, but in each she compresses situation (relationship fracture and reknit), character (distilled to their absolute wants), and setting (St. John’s, Montreal or Korea) like a literary Oreo cookie. It’s all about the crux, the crisis, propelled from the first sentence…Where does someone belong and with whom are core questions here, posed and answered with crisp, lyric prose.” Joan Sullivan, The Telegram