This follow-up to Vertigo cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh, from a freewheeling story on cycling (and Freud), to a country where words themselves fall out of fashion - something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read.
The subject of racism between blacks and whites in the United States is the central theme of this novel by the author of "One of the Children is Crying", "Island People" and "Mrs October Was Here". A series of encounters between blacks and whites expose the hypocrisy of racism.
