RaveThe Kenyon ReviewImpressively, Seuss’s gaze is not only at home ranging from an eighteenth-century painting to a Walmart parking lot, but able to pull taut the threads between them. The result is a virtuosic treatise on art, gender, class, loss, and the hungers brought to bear on each ... Seuss becomes a master of \'rhopography\' while complicating the genre’s gendered implications ... Throughout the book, Seuss’s portraits of women work to confront a long-troubled history of representation ... paced both confidently and effectively. The reader moves between sections the way they might move between rooms in a museum, or across the frame of a painting, at once invited to dwell within and connect across.
