A Ghost in the Throat

"The book is all undergrowth, exuberant, tangled passage."

"Ní Ghríofa's approach focuses on the body, and in doing so breaks the traditional binary of choice between a life of art or a life of family ..."

"Ní Ghríofa isn't the first to translate the poem...but the way she weaves this years-long process with tales from her own life results in a truly unique project that comes alive on the page ..."

"This is a remarkable achievement."

"when it comes to prose, is incapable of delivering a dud sentence ..."

"Ni Ghriofa is deeply attuned to the gaps, silences and mysteries in women's lives, and the book reveals, perhaps above all else, how we absorb what we love — a child, a lover, a poem — and how it changes us from the inside out ..."

"This spectral, arresting and at times disorientating autofiction is, most simply, the story of an author and her muse."

"Ní Ghríofa certainly gives us a new, feminist vision of a woman saving another woman, righting a historical imbalance that persists in women's continued sacrifices, from lopped donor ponytails to donated breastmilk to lopsided breasts."

"She is particularly good on the joys and traumas of childbirth, female desire and the ravages life can visit on the female body ..."

"Lyrical prose passages and moving introspection abound in this unique and beautiful book."