For lesbians, still out of sight and out of mind, Nights in the Underground is a novel that is several years overdue. (pp. 54, 56)

Blais probes the psyches of her characters, carefully establishing that love between women is as joyous and painful as any other kind. (p. 56)

Blais fills her pages with superb description and dialogue….

Nights in the Underground is a dense and challenging novel. Blais brings to it all the skill and confidence of the accomplished storyteller, but in this book she does more than tell a story. She has a subtle but urgent message to convey…. Hers is a quiet voice, melancholy rather than militant, and throughout the book her intelligence as well as her passion is always in evidence. The novel—and it is a novel, not a tract or manifesto—leaves many questions unanswered, perhaps because there are no answers, yet even while disputing...