Vladimir

MARION WINIK, THE WASHINGTON POST

"The excitement begins on the cover, designed to drop jaws ... There's no mistaking the subject of this novel, which is desire ... Jonas...is a playwright and professor at Skidmore College ... The intriguing titles of [her] plays — among them, 'We Used to Wear Bonnets & Get High All the Time' and 'Untitled Zoo Story Project (Autosaved)' — share the cleverness and current sensibility that infuse the novel ...The lightning-quick fantasy detours are an ongoing pleasure of the novel, one of the elements that makes you love the narrator despite her pesky streak of awfulness ... She has you in the palm of her hand at this point, and you are not going anywhere ... Jonas's narrator is a work of art in herself, with at least one foot on the wrong side of #MeToo. You wouldn't want to let that stop you."