RaveBay Area ReporterThe writing is masterful but un-self-flattering. The story is as linear as human life, with its twists and turns, flash-forwards and flashbacks, will allow. The language is startling in its unstartlingness, consciously and painstakingly turning away from verbal acrobatics and rhetorical enigmas. It moves you right along, and then it moves you deeply. All this novel lacks is artifice.
