Her inquisitive, skeptical mind challenges beliefs, including any she herself might hold ... Ok's resistance to being categorized or labeled, evident throughout the book, may have begun in her experience as an Asian American or in her dealings with the medical establishment, but has become a poetics.

In a joint interview for the Cincinnati Review, Ok stated "we both had publication dates of early 2024 and imagined sharing these books together, letting them bring us, rootward, to our favorite friends, cities, and bookstores.

[5] RHINO argued that Ok's poems presented language as both "a ward that shapes a world ... a tool of brainwashing" as well as "a site for play ... not just a vehicle for meaning, but a visual and sonic playground.

"[6] The Los Angeles Review of Books argued that Ok's poems had the effect of reclaiming representation of Korean American women, stating "Ok transforms society’s reduction of her identity into a skillful and imaginative poetics that embodies her corporeal self.

[8] The Harvard Crimson wrote that "Questions of identity, mental health, relationships, and race collide as Cindy Juyoung Ok pushes her poetry to its full potential".