Describing the collection as ""White Oleander" blown into "A Million Little Pieces"", Cris Mazza wrote, "Stripped of sentimentality and sanguinity, Corrina Wycoff 's "O Street" is a relentless stare into the dark yawn of brutality." Alex Shakar praised it as "deeply moving, deftly told, and keenly insightful", and Aimee Liu called it "a harrowing portrait of familial pain, mental illness, and the sometimes cruel tenacity of love". Reviewing the collection for "Rain Taxi", Garin Cycholl wrote that "the book sings violently and truly". Comparing "O Street" to the work of Dorothy Allison "for its depictions of poor women and lesbian relationships", Gretchen Kalwinsky wrote for "Time Out Chicago":