“Mercilessly funny.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times
“American literature’s finest satirist of professionals with problems . . . Prose knows the territory and tweaks it deliciously.” — Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer
“Powerful, funny, and exquisitely nuanced . . . This story has a continental sweep.” — New York Times Book Review
“Timely and clever . . . Prose carries us along on the sheer energy of her sentences.” — Chicago Tribune
“Well-crafted and insightful.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“A novel of ideas, and provocative ones. Class--the dirty American secret--is no secret to Prose.” — Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[A] brilliant new comic novel . . . Prose’s sense of humor is as keen as ever.” — Miami Herald
“Piercing wit... This tale hits comic high notes even as it probes serious issues.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Francine Prose is back with a powerful new novel about the possibility of starting over.” — Harper's Bazaar
“This book has it all: great characters, dark humor, a racing plot and important themes.” — Newsday
“[An] artfully structured novel . . . [with] a selection of showstopping literary set pieces.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Pitch-perfect and nuanced . . . We can’t wait to crawl into bed with this book every night.” — New York Observer
