MixedBookforumThe way Smith treats every detail in her book as equally important forecloses The Fraud’s potential and exposes how ill served Smith is by her philosophy on fiction. After years of deriding the shallowness of treating art as a site of radical struggle, Smith is left with a book that falters as art because of how shallowly it treats political consciousness ... Smith routinely misses the opportunity for depth by avoiding emotional terrain that might be politically salient. The characters admit only the most generic feelings ... Tedious.
