[Trying Hard to Hear You] is one of this year's most affecting novels…. Without a trace of moralizing and never skirting the issue, Sandra Scoppettone has examined the underlying bitterness and prejudice even supposedly "hip" teenagers have toward homosexual activity. (pp. 51-2)

Alice Bach, in her review of "Trying Hard to Hear You" (reprinted by permission of The Village Voice and the author; copyright © The Village Voice, Inc., 1974), in The Village Voice, Vol. XIX, No. 50, December 16, 1974, pp. 51-2.