"With homelessness a growing and apparently enduring feature of urban life in the late twentieth century, the experience of the homeless seems more and more a project waiting for a powerful fictive treatment... the subject contains more complex significance than any Bill Moyers' special possibly could. Where is the great novel, the Oliver Twist or Grapes of Wrath of the 1990s? Certainly the project is a daunting one, for the reality of homelessness is so hard to imagine... All of them, in our fear-of-falling culture, have slipped further into a hole than the vast majority of us will ever slip, God willing. The hole is dark and the leap of imagination required is promethean. Who wants to go there? Who can go there? In The Invisible Women of Washington, novelist Diana G. Collier takes the reader to the edge of the abyss...."                                               Bloomsbury Review