PositiveThe Chicago Review of BooksThere is suspense. There is violence. There is even occasional—and occasionally awkward—sex. And though the story takes place in Zimbabwe, it’s very much an international novel with international characters and themes...There is also humor, dry and dark when it isn’t unnatural and contrived. I laughed more than once. In some ways it reminds me of a Coen brothers film, a tightly plotted misadventure where senseless death is always right around the corner. But unlike a Coen film, it’s hopeful and intimate, mostly devoid of cold postmodern irony, and we tend to actually like many of the characters ... The only truly weak parts are the brief sections narrated by Rosie, a little girl transplanted from New York. The author attempts the voice of a young child and it just doesn’t work terribly well.
