A man wearing a yellow shirt is pouring something white into one of many barrels inside of a building.
Inside a building with several barrels, a man wearing yellow is pouring something white onto one of them.
Feminists approve of the novel, about an aging rock star and her two abandoned children, because it coldly documents the woman's abuse and is clear-eyed about the economic forces that shape women's lives (Valerie Sayers, the New York Times Book Review ). Others say Allison leans precariously toward melodrama and tries too hard for gut-wrenching emotion (Phyllis Richardson, the Los Angeles Times Book Review ).