After settling into a nuanced study of family the reader is hastily upended into a rather on-the-nose satire on reality TV culture, only to be reminded that this is a piece of serious fiction about racial identity, amid which they find the central characters locked into a wacky folie à trois caper. Although his premise is outré and his plot bustling, Levinson is more of an elegant and careful stylist than the likes of Michael Chabon or Rick Moody and other whipcrack wise-guy writers Tell Me How This Ends Well is perhaps most reminiscent of." — Richard Hirst, Litro Magazine |
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