RaveRolling Stone... enthralling ... with this book, Brodesser-Akner has done exactly what her fictional counterpart promises to do. She writes with the heft and masterful wordplay of a Wolfe, but with empathy for and curiosity about all the players in the tale. It’s a cutting sociological dissection of the way we live now, but it cares about its characters as people in a way that’s absent from the prose of Wolfe — or, for that matter, Jonathan Franzen, whose work Brodesser-Akner evokes while confidently one-upping ... will occasionally make you angry at the things the people in it do, but mostly it will make you hungry for whatever Brodesser-Akner is going to write next.
