RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewSkillful ... Shows we’re getting selfishness all wrong. As uproariously funny as a takedown of our deadly society can be, the novel is also an urgent call to exchange possession for belonging. Hester is proof that, eventually, capitalism destroys even those it seems to benefit most.
Kimberly King Parsons
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewSingular ... The ride could not be more rewarding; Parsons’s transgressive boldness allows us to feel the soul in places that moderation simply cannot reach ... Discursive modules open up context and click the kaleidoscopic lens of perspective, deepening and expanding everything we thought we knew ... Though the book’s end brings a curtain-drop twist that is the plot-based equivalent of sudden mescaline clarity and awe, equally moving are the moments of joy found in the imagined interiority of Kit’s own fantasies.
