“Kricorian does for young women what James Joyce did for middle-aged men: She allows us to scramble safely amid the debris of new love, rejection, sex and identity.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[Dreams of Bread and Fire] asks pointed questions and weaves a spellbinding web around the answers. By turns funny, tragic, astute and enlightening, it is an engrossing coming-of-age tale.”
— Library Journal