“As far as I know, Dawn Powell’s novels are not on a syllabus at any American university. Yet she is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland and has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she’s most often compared.”—Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times Book Review