Jessica Anthony renders the pathos of older domestic dramas such as Revolutionary Road, but with an admirable economy of words and a creative omniscient narrator ... The narrator is not fooled, and neither is the reader. This technique elevates The Most from a simple marriage story to a portrait of an era, a minute event firmly entrenched in a larger world.
an utter joy, as crisp and unexpected as the surprisingly sunny November 1957 day over which it takes place. It is almost a distilled novel, and reads like a late, undiscovered masterpiece by John Cheever (and not just because of the melancholy of swimming pools).
No-holds-barred ... Anthony’s sharply focused portrait of seemingly average lives in midcentury America reveals the complexities of those lives in the course of one balmy day.
