PositiveThe Washington PostThe author shows great insight plumbing Karen’s constant need for approval ... This timely novel captures every character in the worst light, and the grudge matches among Brooklyn’s liberal parentocracy are nastier than any playground brawl ... Whenever Karen spins out her web of scorn, she catches herself in it — and this reader, too ... Every time Karen offers her take on the multicultural experiment that is public education, I was reminded of the satirist Alexander Pope’s saying: 'All looks yellow to the Jaundiced Eye.' Therein lies Rosenfeld’s talent as well as her lineage.
