“A supreme comedy of errors…. The story encompasses all the joys and sorrows of everyday life, revealing that circus animals are much like the rest of us.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“Anyone whose misbegotten past includes time on or around the boards will recognize the loving accuracy Bram brings to his often hilarious take on love spurned, mismatched, and rearranged on and way-off Broadway…. Slick, smart, and funny.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“One of those perfect New York City books that explores the layers of human interaction in the city…. Like a miniature masquerade, tipping its hat to the conventions of historical fiction by incorporating real-life celebrities with their roman à clef peers.”
—Genre
“[A] sexy, witty novel.”
—Detroit Free Press
“This is a very fine novel. Though the characters are often given comic scenes to play out, the writing never holds them up to ridicule. They are all fully realized and fully human, even in their quarrels—Bram writes exceptionally good quarrels—and that itself is a great and moving accomplishment. His ear for dialogue is pitch-perfect, and he manages contemporary gay-straight gender politics as well as or better than anyone else. I loved it.”
—Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love
“Bram gives us characters to love for their humanity and vulnerability from the outset of a sweetly funny and engaging novel that makes the contemporary New York theater scene spring to life in an imaginative unfolding of the interrelationships of fascinating, often eccentric, always less-than-perfect people being themselves.”
—Booklist