PositiveThe New York Times... unusual and intelligent ... Amazingly enough, this heavy theme is treated with a light hand ... The text itself is broken up not by the customary salutations and chronology of letters, but by boldface headings; each section is a vignette or a dramatic monologue and the whole novel forms a poetic sequence from which a discourse about origins - psychological, legendary and historic - unfolds ... The novel makes no attempt to resolve the characters\' continued ambivalence and moral amnesia. But readers will find in this ambitious, at times brilliant fiction a passionate articulation of a painful and guilt-ridden memory.
