RaveThe New York Times... [an] excellent new novel ... short and brisk, propelled by the suspense of multiple questions ... Ciment writes with a mordant intelligence and, refreshingly, doesn’t belabor topics that in someone else’s novel might take up many pages ... Another of the many pleasures of this novel is how knowingly but matter-of-factly Ciment depicts class distinctions ... One suggestion: Don’t read the jacket copy, which gives away more than it needs to. Even so, the story ends in a way I hadn’t expected. I was left unsettled by this deft and gripping novel, and also deeply impressed.
