A work from this book Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street won Woods the Shirley Jackson [3] Award for best novelette, 2018.

This collection also received mention from film and television actress, Emma Roberts[4] (American Horror Story, Scream Queens) who posed with it in a series of photos, as part of her book club, Belletrist.

[5] This has spurred a trend of people posing with the book while dressed in gothic fashion, in rural and pastoral settings and posting pictures on social media, often using the tag #thingstodowhenyouregothinthecounty.

[1] Despite their attention around these issues, the "ambivalence" of Woods's writing prevents the stories from being reduced to "rhetoric," as another reviewer noted, they are never "only" about queerness, but rather center around characters for whom that is a part of their identity.

[1][7] Corinne Manning of Electric Lit considered the political nature of the collection, saying that the stories seemed "like they were ready made for a post 2017 election," but are in reality of "the world that's always been here.