RaveThe St. Louis Post-DispatchAuthor Matthew Quick traffics heavily in such life-worn souls, oddballs trying but failing to reach one another, until circumstances leave them no choice. His characters don’t connect so much as collide, more times than not with sharp comedic effect ... candor and honesty gives this first-person narrative its potency. It also supplies the humor, with David emphatically reminding us he is not a bigot or a racist, even as he tramples on societal discretion ... What this novel offers is a hope that we have the capacity to get beyond what offends us about one another. Perhaps, at this particular political moment, that’s plenty.
