“…voice is where Kirstin Scott astonishes, both in the gutsy yet precise and lyrical voice of her narrator Thea, and in the brilliantly realized voices that Scott bestows on the rest of Thea’s family. Here we have a tribe of mothers-gone-wrong and their sidelined, well-meaning, hapless men – and yet, owing to the sheer inventiveness of Scott’s prose style, the family portrait that emerges is almost (well, not quite) affirmative. We believe in these characters and even believe that some good – some human equivalent of that ribald, generous and knowing voice -- will come out of all this.”－－Jaimy Gordon，美國國家書卷獎得主、《暴政之王》（Lord of Misrule）作者
“Funny and smart…Scott has created characters we believe in and wish well, characters who feel real—strange and sad and happy, like real people are.”－－出版人週刊，星級書評
“In this solid first novel, Scott, winner of the 2011 AWP Prize in the Novel, renders wonderfully offbeat characters in crisp, polished prose.”－－書單，星級書評
“Told with dazzling prose, Motherlunge is a wry, luminous exploration of the legacy of motherhood here, about the afflictions that may cycle through generations… a thoroughly engaging novel, with wonderful turns of phrase in every sentence, and its witty humor announces a welcome new voice in American fiction, full of charm and tender wisdom.”－－Don Lee, author of The Collective
