...[A] sprawling, meditative graphic novel... [that] ripples with exuberance: [Lust] convincingly evokes her teenage feelings of fury and joy, and the small details of the way she experienced unfamiliar places for the first time.--Douglas Wolk "The New York Times"
A testament not only to how boldly Lust traveled, but also how far she's come as an artist.-- "PRI"
A youthful-looking 40-something now living in Berlin, Ulli Lust claims to have learned 'more on the streets than in the books'... varying the rhythm and framing of her panels, populating them with her subtly stylized characters, she provides an unvarnished vision of male-female relations in which violence, drugs and sex perform a diabolical dance. And even though there are flashes of humor, this relentless story remains focused on the frustration of men and the pain of women.-- "Le Monde"
Great cartooning.--Kevin Huizenga "(Ganges, Gloriana)"
Lust takes readers inside her experiences, letting them feel how high hopes can devolve into raw survival.--Noel Murray "The A.V. Club"
There is a rejection of the organization of the world, from organized faith to organized crime. It is about the pursuit of nihilism as a route to integrity. Ulli Lust has the intelligence to look at her life and make a book of it.--Eddie Campbell "(From Hell, Alec)"
Told with great confidence and uncomfortable frankness across a sprawling 450 pages, it is a coming-of-age narrative that inevitably places itself in the tradition of German travel literature, perhaps unwittingly joining the company of such august figures as Goethe and Hesse.--Matthias Wivel "The Metabunker"