An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the surreal, strokes of caricature, slapstick, and the grotesque, with an inherent down-to-earth sanity and realism.
- Saturday Review. A wealthy white man and earnest do-gooder buys a building in a ghetto neighbourhood in this warm, comic novel, which takes a satirical look at issues of gentrification as well as those of race, class, and privilege.
