Washington Post Book World:
"A masterpiece... One of the great road novels... Exhilarating... A literary experience unlike anything else."

San Francisco Chronicle:
"[A] towering achievement... A bittersweet love story saturated in American mythos... Provocative, mischievous and thoroughly dazzling."

New York Times Book Review:
"If you turn the book upside down and swing it around every eight pages, you can alternate the monologues of its two narrators, Sam and Hailey, so as to spin them together... Each story features, alongside the main narrative, a kind of sidebar with fragments of historical fact and shards of dialogue underneath a date, like snatches of some ominous news ticker... Two beginnings, two never-ending endings, 200 years of history in the making, one pivoting midpoint in Dealey Plaza, and one shared 'dream' ... and anyone can see that the 'dream' at stake is America."