SOURCE: Allen, Brooke. “Foreign Voices.” New Leader 86, no. 1 (January-February 2003): 24-5.
In the following review, Allen contends that although Somersault is replete with beautiful images and compelling ideas, the novel is both “alienating and boring.”
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