Wakenight Emporium - Reviews

"West's book is a beautiful attempt to move the reader outside of mundane human experience--hence the focus on external perpectives: physics, Martians, birds, and insects with their own 'raspy little affairs'--in order to arrive at a broader sense of humanity and the big scheme of things."

—Review of Contemporary Fiction

"Experimental writing, the specialty of FC2, is only experimental if it doesn't work. West, writer of highly poetic prose and adept at stagecraft, makes her writing work. one does not need to read more than two of her thirty-one meditations (plus one unnumbered one) that make up Wakenight Emporium to see that, althought she builds precariously, she is firmly in charge."

—The Compulsive Reader