Interview with Susan Stevenson, Readings Bookstore

‘Ramona Koval’s A Letter to Layla examines what it means to be human. In an affectionate account of Homo sapiens’ origins, she explores what has given us our current dominance of the planet… The debates are vigorous and contradictory and the personalities powerful and often eccentric. Koval’s erudition carries the reader across many disciplines and A Letter to Layla reminds us of our potential as a species…

Interwoven with this account are Koval’s observations of her granddaughter Layla’s development… Koval’s warmth towards her immediate family extends to our species as a whole.’