RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe reader sympathizes with the loser ... The scenes of interactions at the store are jarring and occasionally agonizing, even if terribly funny in Tottenham’s sardonic voice ... The book captures the reality of life as a committed writer ... It demonstrates the crushing nature of having a day job ... I couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride, of hope, of affection for the cantankerous bookseller at having completed and published a work of substance, which we know now, if we didn’t before, is no small feat.
