"If the well-mannered audience of poetry devotees assembled at Harbourfront had been given whiskey and score cards at the launch of "Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, " they'd have held up 10s for a curly-haired, unassuming young Parkdale denizen. A captivated hush fell over the room as she read poetic excerpts from "When I Was Young and In My Prime"... Munce has an astounding ability to innovate stylistically without alienating the reader. In this brave pastiche of letters, diary entries, dialogue, transcribed medical texts, poems and straight-up story, she brings poetry to the novel without making it incomprehensible or inaccessible... Inhabiting different characters, Munce deftly and without sentimentality spins a beautifully written story about family history and how lives can change from one generation to the next."
- Zoe Whittall, "NOW Magazine"
