"Wakefield wrote an intrepid nonfiction book about modern squatting, Not for Rent (1996), and now vividly fictionalizes the experience, portraying various oddball characters in her charmingly laid-back, dialogue-rich first novel with empathy and insight." --Booklist
"Wakefield . . . draws on personal experience for this colorful and entertaining depiction. . . . the sentiment of the nomadic community in New York in the '90s comes alive...