"Having aimed high, having strode beneath New York with a can of Mace from her father, and with a heart and head ready to listen, [Toth] has brought back a book of stories that no one else has told -- a book that is honest and above all, loving, to people who are nobody's friends. We should all do so well."
-Jim Dwyer, The Washington Post

"Toth pulls the reader into this nether world. Highly recommended."
->Library Journal

"We come to trust her as our guide to this subterranean world. And what a world it is. After snaking with Toth over fences, into manholes, down rusty stairs, across planks and catwalks, and through fissures in cement walls, we enter what one police officer describes as 'a city beneath the streets.'"
-Los Angeles Times

"Ms. Toth is in the unenviable position of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner: She's a cursed witness who's obviously haunted, even tormented, by the faces, stories, and subterranean landscape she has visited."
-New York Observer