A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
"Fresh, witty and relentlessly funny -- a wise exploration of how, for many of us, family ties can not only bind, but gag."
"A frothy, fast-paced exploration of the dichotomies between the two sections of Los Angeles: upper L.A. with all the glitz and the big houses and beautiful women and BMWs, and lower L.A., the suburbs 'too dull to be the subject of a TV show or a Joan Didion novel.'"
"Reverberates with echoes of Nathanael West, Horace McCoy and even Robert Altman."
"Don't go poolside without [it]."
"Fast paced like the city but with down-to-earth morals like the Valley."
"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."
"Randall's writing is as sharp and bright as the region's fable Mediterranean sun. Randall has presented a Los Angeles full of bizarre, oftentimes inexplicable, hierarchies and dualities."
"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."
--Laura Zigman, author of Animal Husbandry
"A frothy, fast-paced exploration of the dichotomies between the two sections of Los Angeles: upper L.A. with all the glitz and the big houses and beautiful women and BMWs, and lower L.A., the suburbs 'too dull to be the subject of a TV show or a Joan Didion novel.'"
--Washington Post Book World
"Reverberates with echoes of Nathanael West, Horace McCoy and even Robert Altman."
--Publisher's Weekly
"Don't go poolside without [it]."
--People Magazine
"Fast paced like the city but with down-to-earth morals like the Valley."
--L.A. Daily News
"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 fable Mediterranean sun. Randall has presented a Los Angeles full of bizarre, oftentimes inexplicable, hierarchies and dualities."
--Los Angeles Times
"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