Reviews
San Francisco ChronicleAlice Adams has a genius for crystallizing a character's state of mind with just a few lines of internal monologue and can switch points of view effortlessly. These multiple levels of consciousness create a rich, busy texture!, Chicago TribuneAn immensely satisfying book...with all the breadth and much of the appeal of Adams' memorableSuperior Women., The New York Times Book ReviewWell told and moves surely and deftly....The lives of the five very different women and their cool, nonjudgemental mother become important to us., Chicago TribuneA sharp portrait of America in the 1980s....A consummate storyteller, Adams draws us from character to character and incident to incident with an effortlessness that belies the intricacy of her tale.
