Anna Starobinets
ABOUT AUTHOR IN GENERAL
"This is one of the most stunning debuts to come out of Russia since Victor Pelevin: hip, funny, angry, and dark as hell... With one foot in the high literary camp and the other in genre (but never generic) horror, Starobinets establishes herself as the 21st-century Gogol, mapping a twisted road to the dark and absurd heart of Russia."
BOOKTRUST
"This girl seems to have an absolute handle on what reality actually is."
AFISHA
"She writes with delicate verbal grace, never losing it to a whine."
TIME OUT
ABOUT VIXEN HILL
"Starobinets doesn‘t let the reader relax for a minute as she manages to keep up the hellish pace over seven hundred and something pages."
MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)“
ABOUT BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES
"A clever whodunit featuring believable animal characters in a convincing, recogniza- ble society... Mystery fans (around the world) should rejoice."
KIRKUS
"A children’s detective is a rare genre, and a children’s psychological detective is an even more unique one. A spectacular literary event."
PSYCHOLOGIES
"Perfect for all fans of detective stories."
THE STANDARD
"Racy, mischievous, suspiciously good!"
CHILDREN‘S BOOK FAVORITE
ABOUT CATLANTIDA
"Madcap and highly original."
THE OBSERVER
ABOUT LOOK AT HIM
"[A] most important statement on a topic that no one has ever spoken aloud here [in Russia]—necessary, traumatic, but also healing reading for any woman, and also for any man living with a woman and contemplating having children with her."
MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)
"[W]hat makes the book so compelling and human is that Starobinets puts her fic- tion-writing background to good use, pacing her book to develop a story arc and suspense. I could only read a little bit at a time because a personal story about late-term abortion is so intensely emotional. Even so, I had a hard time putting the book down at night."
LIZA HAYDEN
"As abortion again takes center stage in national and international politics, Look At Him underscores the fact that even with birth defects, there are still so many sides to this issue."
NANCY NAOMI CARLSON
"Unable to put it down, a memoir of a young woman in Moscow who discovers in the 16th week of her pregnancy that the baby she is carrying has a fatal defect. The book chronicles not only the author’s personal anguish as she contemplates abortion but the inflexibility of the Russian medi- cal system and Russian society in general."
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
ABOUT AWKWARD AGE
"...wickedly clever talent of this young “Queen of Russian Horror."
TMT MAGAZINE
