" I am somehow determined to make it all the way through this series, though Updike had better improve his game by the next one. At this step, our ambitious Great White Male Novelist takes on race relations in America, circa 1969, with results that would be funny if they weren't so pigheaded and, well, racist. It's all especially galling because it's evident that he thinks himself quite the adept, progressive social chronicler. Still, the man can write, and I'm curious what the Reagan years will have in store for our small-minded American hero. "
— Toni, 2/1/2014