Barnes animates a magnetizing cast of cosmopolitan characters ... A veritable Mad Men of the desert, with the depth of a Graham Greene novel.
Booklist
A close inspection of how radically a life can be rescaled, and how quickly. With a protagonist like this, Barnes could have set her novel in a single room, and we'd keep reading.
Boston Globe
Drawn with skill and filled with evocative period detail ... [Gin] plumbs the depths of her new world with heart and courage.
Seattle Times
Barnes animates a magnetizing cast of cosmopolitan characters ... A veritable Mad Men of the desert, with the depth of a Graham Greene novel.
Booklist
A close inspection of how radically a life can be rescaled, and how quickly. With a protagonist like this, Barnes could have set her novel in a single room, and we'd keep reading.
Boston Globe
Drawn with skill and filled with evocative period detail ... [Gin] plumbs the depths of her new world with heart and courage.
Seattle Times
Barnes animates a magnetizing cast of cosmopolitan characters ... A veritable Mad Men of the desert, with the depth of a Graham Greene novel.
Booklist
A close inspection of how radically a life can be rescaled, and how quickly. With a protagonist like this, Barnes could have set her novel in a single room, and we'd keep reading.
Boston Globe
Drawn with skill and filled with evocative period detail ... [Gin] plumbs the depths of her new world with heart and courage.