"[2] People magazine noted the rarity of records of such experiences: "In the annals of grief memoirs, stillbirth stories don't figure big.

"[3] The New York Times reviewer, who had apparently experienced something similar, wrote of Replica, "the author also applies honesty, wisdom and even wit to a painful event.

"[4] Kirkus Reviews noted that while McCracken wrote "Closure is bullshit," "her memoir shows her achieving a sort of peace, though never a mindless tranquility.

"[5] Fourth Genre, a journal dedicated to "notable, innovative work in non-fiction," described the book in a column about how different writers have approached grief: "McCracken frankly illuminates what that situation really implies: the sad and gruesome facts concerning giving birth to a dead baby.

[8] Legal scholar Carol Sanger wrote in 2012, "Putting anything into the balance against the exigencies of parental grief may suggest a cold indifference to suffering.