“Reverberates with echoes of Nathanael West, Horace McCoy, and even Robert Altman.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Fast-paced like the city but with down-to-earth morals like the Valley.”
—L.A. Daily News
“[Randall is] a skilled observer of surfaces in a world that is nearly all surface …”
—Washington Post
“If Bridget Jones had a sex change and teamed up with Nathanael West, the result would be (this) scathing, hysterical, drop-dead accurate portrayal of contempo L.A. With laser-sharp wit and sentences you want to read out loud to strangers, Randall lays bare the pretensions, rituals, and peculiar, air-conditioned dementia of life in the City of Angels.”
—Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and Perv—A Love Story
“It reads … like a smart sitcom script …”
—Mademoiselle
“A witty novel of manners and mores in the two Los Angeleses … Satire that’s more affectionate than barbed: a good-humored look at the L.A. that Randall … grew up in, still lives in, and is titillated by.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Randall’s writing is as sharp and bright as the region’s fabled Mediterranean sun. Randall has presented a Los Angeles full of bizarre, oftentimes inexplicable, hierarchies and dualities.”
—Los Angeles Times