“The poems have a cumulative emotional power.” — ALA Booklist (starred review)
“Heartfelt.” — KLIATT (starred review)
“The poems take on life and movement, the individual frames of a movie that in the unspooling become animated, telling a compelling tale.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Unpretentious. Accessible. Deeply felt.” — School Library Journal
“Sensitively written.” — The Horn Book
“This debut novel shows the capacity of poetry to record the personal and translate it into the universal.” — Chicago Tribune
“Stop Pretending is a tour de force debut. It celebrates truth-telling, and has a purity and passion that speaks to the heart.” — Boston Globe