 Marianne Hauser, reviewing the book for "The New York Times" on November 18, 1941, praises "the author's fanatic love of people.With a few lines she draws the gesture of a deaf-mute, the windblown skirts of a Negro woman in the fields, the bewilderment of a child in the sickroom of an old people's asylum--and she has told more than many an author might tell in a novel of six hundred pages".Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote the book's Introduction, said