Newspaper reviewers from Cleveland, to Kansas City, to Los Angeles formed a consensus, best expressed in the New York Times Book Review: “Though diverse in points of view and characters, each story deals in some way with a person who has been treading a path of inherited or habitual expectation and now, rounding a corner, discovers this is where the sidewalk ends. The character himself—or sometimes only the reader—is faced with the revelation that whatever is to happen now will have to be something new.”
