Shirin Sojitrawalla from Deutschlandfunk "Büchermarkt" says: "There is not much room for ambivalence, it's either black or white, hot or cold. Some things seem stereotypical, others incredibly real. 'If you endure it long enough, you can get used to almost anything,' writes Gay. This is what her stories are fundamentally about. Sometimes in a fascinatingly bright way, sometimes fairy-tale allegorical, sometimes clumsy. But always: hard and true." Marlen Horback from Welt am Sonntag says: "Grandiose stories." Sonja Hartl from Deutschlandfunk Kultur "Studio 9" says: "However, it is precisely this brutally honest and unvarnished directness that gives the good stories a brutally beautiful virtuosity. Gay finds astonishing imagery for loneliness and pain." Glamour says: "Gripping and combative.".