MacGregor Tells the World a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2007

MacGregor Tells the World a Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007

MacGregor Tells the World a Best Book of 2007--School Library Journal

"McKenzie is an accomplished humorist and a developed stylist, and she wastes no time dazzling the reader with her clean direct language, her simple but searing use of metaphor and her unflinching eye. The paragraphs are put together with razor sharp concision, and the book is rich in both narrative and linguistic surprise...McKenzie is an original."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Mac West makes you want to rack your brain and the dictionary for a weightier and more glorious word than tragicomic because his story is a tragedy (think Oedipus, think Romeo and Juliet), a comedy (divine in so many ways), a quest narrative (he seeks, simultaneously and nearly every waking second, his lost father, his dead mother, and true, abiding love), a coming of age tale (and he does, he grows up, but in a good way), a love letter to the city of San Francisco, and, above all, a romance of the very highest sort. It's also teeming with writing that is startlingly inventive, witty, audacious, and often just plain beautiful, but that also reveals the author's admirable sense of proportion when it comes to her own gifts (the prose never becomes a dog-and-pony show, although she must have been tempted!). Like Mac (whom I miss already), this book is a charmer and a heartbreaker, both."
--Marisa de los Santos, author of Love Walked In