PositiveThe Brooklyn RailCline manages to balance her heroine’s willful delusions, her desire for security and her itchiness once she has it, her shrewdness, and her real, embodied desires, without slipping into cliches herself. While there have been plenty of books and films written recently about women antiheroes—enough to spawn an even greater number of think pieces against what’s been named as a trope—The Guest uses the genre as a deliberate social critique. So long as these hierarchies exist, Cline suggests, so, too, will these stories.