"What makes Money memorable, and Mary Robison essential, is that her fundamental bearings are the right ones. makes you think-hard-about life's unavoidable travails, while making it impossible for you to suppress a smile." -Lisa Shea, Elle " tour de force of minimalist yet mind-expanding prose. "Robison's incandescent soliloquy on the absurdity of existence hones fiction to a new and exhilarating measure of sharpness." -Donna Seaman, Booklist Highly recommended for all public and academic fiction collections." - Library Journal Her humorous presentation does not cheapen the tragic content of her novel but realistically portrays one method of survival. "Robison's characters are vivid, colorful, and likable, and their story is absorbing. A simple sentence fragment-'Canoe, moon, ukelele'-seems a close to perfect expression of lost beauty." - The New Yorker "The author, who is known as a minimalist, here creates a narrative out of fragmented paragraphs, and the book works best when she strips Money's most explicit fears away. "I wish to hell I could write prose like this.The joy in this novel is for the reader, not the characters. It's an amazing little book: all of Robison's minimalist genius is at work here." -Cathleen Schine, New York Times Book Review "An epic portrayed in miniature, a cry of cosmic pain in a voice of absurdist humor, an earnest insistence on maternal love in the language of skepticism and family dysfunction.
dark jewel of a novel." -Francine Prose, O: The Oprah Magazine. "Mary Robison, almost as an afterthought, has created a novel that speaks volumes about life in Los Angeles: its stopping and starting, its rushing and emoting, its whimsy and its suspicious, subversive humor." - Los Angeles Times Book Review Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for fiction in 2001
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