From Scientific American
Bond brings to her work insights obtained through her deep understanding of the human psyche, and its frequently unquenched thirst for creative expression. Bond honors the actors, dancers, writers, painters and performers who barely survive the high prices and small rewards of struggling to maintain their lives in Paradise. Bond clearly understands something about creative people that many do not: they do what they have to do because they have to. I sort of half fell in love with most of the people in this book, Bond says. And so will her readers.
From The New Yorker
Like a majority of those who read the book, most of these people who give KW its artistic flavor have come from elsewhere, fallen in love, and stayed on. They tell their stories to the author and to the world in this charming collection of interviews.
