"Blauner never shies away from the grotesque, or the beautiful. . . . Courageous and innovative and mesmerizing, Frankenstein for a new age." Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat

"A statement about the nature of evil and its inevitability, even necessity, that reveals the tragic essence of Blauner's] vision and her adroitness with metaphor." Jerome Gold, The Moral Life of Soldiers

"If Solace was like its protagonistbuilt from others' body partsit might draw its parts from Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the...