"Nina Revoyr... is fast becoming one of the city’s finest chroniclers and mythmakers."
-- Los Angeles Magazine
"Ingenious... hums with the excitement of Hollywood’s pioneer era."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Fast-moving, riveting, unpredictable, and profound....Highly recommended."
-- Library Journal
"Rare indeed is a novel this deeply pleasurable and significant.
-- Booklist
"Quietly powerful...settles to a close as deftly and beautifully as a crane landing on quiet water."
-- L.A. Weekly
"Revoyr beautifully invokes Jun’s self-deceptions and his growing self-awareness. An enormously satisfying novel."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Revoyr('s) evocation of Little Tokyo and Hollywood in the teens is superb...Her characters live and breathe, and her novel is exhilarating."
-- Leonard Maltin
"A pulse-quickening, deliciously ironic serving of Hollywood noir."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Brilliant and original…The carefully restrained voice of the narrator, once a silent film star, recalls Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day—but in his past, it turns out, there was also passion, madness, and murder."
-- Alison Lurie
"A masterpiece of the sort that doesn’t just seduce the reader—it leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today."
-- Jerry Stahl
"A riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel—profoundly moving, often heartbreaking, in its exploration of the rise and fall of human lives."
-- Mary Yukari Waters
