PositiveThe Star TribuneThis peculiar little book is a mash-up of a couple of types of novel — with some of the conspiratorial paranoia of Pynchon, some of the poignant comical darkness of Kafka and some of the interior tenderness of contemporary literary fiction ... What Helen Phillips has created is, finally, an intriguing fictional world in which love and language meet their match in routine and necessity — and who, or which, triumphs may be a reader\'s choice.
