Booklist:
“Start with a broth of magic realism à la Gabriel García Márquez, toss in a soupçon of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, add a twist of the musical play Brigadoon and even some ingredients from the Book of Genesis, and then top off with some borrowings from post-revolutionary France, and you have a first novel that is not a derivative pot of unintegrated elements but an inventively rich stew. . . . The characterizations are drawn as compellingly as the storyline itself, which simply gets increasingly delicious as the pages turn.”
— Booklist
