Monument is an undoing that doesn't claim a reconstitution. Rather, Bonny Cassidy offers a way of reading out of the lacunae of settler history and documentation through a personal investigation of ancestry and resultant culpability alongside community connection and abrasion across three colonies and many Indigenous lands … In these markings is the purpose of Cassidy's remarkable, essential and self-critiquing undocumenting-in-order-to-redocument via family history and asides … It is always difficult to talk of 'us', but the overlapping narratives of personal connection, familial denial, the erasures and rewritings implicit in reportage and social machinery, are so entwined in this work that the 'settler we' is made undeniable in the modes of unwinding and rethreading on offer here. I consider this an essential amendment to 'settler memoirising' and de-monumentalising the colonial assault on country and its peoples. Superbly written and pivotally deconstructive.

— John Kinsella