RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"Williams performs a number of clever tricks with the narration, and not least of these is that sad-sack Louise is a consistently winning perspective. In the beginning, the writing has a comic pizazz — you can imagine Natasha Lyonne reading the audiobook — but it grows deeper, darker and more melancholy as the book goes on, the self-possessed wisecracking revealing itself, as it often does, as the defense mechanism of a lonely and disconnected soul ... The subtle science-fiction elements only serve to deepen this sense of alienation. Williams’s near-future world takes familiar technology and makes it even more pervasive and isolating ... one of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads, and it even manages to perform two or three plot turns that are so masterly that they would make Ira Levin blush. You can read the ending as happy — or as existential horror, as I do — but in any case it’s a book that’s going to keep readers turning pages late into the night.\
