Reddick loads her genre-blurring tale with outlandish intrigue involving Soviet spies, a capitalist cult and a roving choir that doubles as a Greek chorus.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2026
The District of Columbia's most affluent suburb is McLean, home to diplomats and spies.
Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
11 July 2026
The piece contends that while rumors circulated among political gossips and online, these remained unsubstantiated whispers that did not meet journalism’s evidentiary threshold for publication.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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