Reception of the novel was generally very positive. NPR, though noting that the plot is relatively limited, praised the book writing that "I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice.".[1] The Guardian's reviewer similarly highlighted how the novel has a very "elastic" voice, as Saleh narrates the novel with both interior dialogue and other narration strategies.[4] The Guardian concludes very positively writing that "precisely in its strangeness, a genuine literary pleasure: a complicated one."[4]