Broken Pencil appreciates Lemon

'Lemon is a grim social satire, relentlessly bent on getting into your head and under your skin and forcing you to recognize many of the things we breeze over. You are taken in by Lemon and her quick, astringent remarks immediately … Strube twists the traditional bildungsroman by presenting Lemon as the adult in an ever more-disappointing world where adults don’t act like they should … Reading Lemon, with its intelligent and bleak blend of malice and beauty, puts you behind the eyes of a teenaged girl whose vivid awareness and wit carve her a place in the world. With Lemon, Strube again asserts herself as an accomplished writer who sets out to grapple with some undesirable realities.'