Sour and hectoring ... A Better Life is not a heavy lift, and there is cringing amusement in seeing how far its author is willing to go to pierce leftist pieties under the protective tent of fiction, but it’s more playground taunt than brave truth.
Shriver’s deft prose presents emotional arguments that encapsulate both sides of the immigration debate, successfully reading the pulse of current American conversations on the topic. This is a book readers will be eager to talk about.
