State Champ
Admirably resists the interpretive clarity the world craves from Angela ... Often funny, and pleasantly odd ... As Angela grows increasingly delirious with hunger, Plum fragments her prose into a kind of self-conscious poetry that strains beneath the weight of the plot ... But the pleasure of this book lies not in its plot or even in its characters (Angela is more voice than character), but in the intimacy of its setting.
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Definitely arguing for something, but its characters don’t always seem up to the task of effecting change. Rather than being aligned in their beliefs, they’re scattered, ambivalent, at odds. That’s part of what makes the book so interesting ... A post-Dobbs novel we’re lucky to have, one that really wrestles with the place of abortion in an imperfect world.
Revelatory and impassioned ... [A] sharp, incisive, and galvanizing portrait of a woman exerting her choice.
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