RaveThe Washington Post\"[The Job] is a sweeping, snappily written survey that looks unsparingly at what the author calls “our national jobs disorder” — which she characterizes as a constellation of ills that include low wages, stagnant incomes and sick corporate cultures ... There is a lot that’s wrong [with our relationship to work], and Shell expends a lot of energy looking into it. She is a lively, engaging writer, with a gift for translating economic abstractions into plain English ... Shell has written a spirited \'dare to dream\' book with a tantalizing promise, that \'work as it can and should be is well within our reach.\' Despite her detours into Neverland, she is persuasive enough to make it seem that it might even be true.\
Edwidge Danticat
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewMuch of the material in The Art of Death has appeared elsewhere in one form or another. The book occasionally turns into a digression-filled pastiche, and there are times when it feels like a homework assignment ... But Danticat does full justice to her theme when she lingers over fictional scenes that have resonated for her ... Danticat provides a splendid example of death writing herself. In a leitmotif threading its way through the book — a string of asides, really — she recalls the death of her mother.
