The New York Times says: "One of the great delights of THE CROSSLEY BABY is how forthrightly and naturally it looks at those great American subjects, class and race. Here we are reading a blithe comedy about motherhood wars among the well-to-do and suddenly we find ourselves in Harlem with the working poor, as angry about the lack of health care as Sunny and Leon are. This is a novel so pleasurable, so light and foamy, that we may think we will make it through the entire story without either of the surviving sisters ever once having a serious philosophical, political or spiritual insight, only to find ourselves having epiphanies right alongside them. "THE CROSSLEY BABY... is slyly seductive, and its conclusion about motherhood -- not to mention the move from cushy yuppiedom to working-class struggle -- is completely satisfying." |
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