Worthy of its praise. The shifting narrators; first through third perspective changes; use of past, present, and future tenses; and, experimental chapter formats made the book interesting, enjoyable, complex, and unique. I'll likely read it again. 4.75/5 stars overall.

4/5, in that this was an average Vonnegut, but ultimately is still KVJ. One of his more complicated and intertextual novels, I felt distracted by references and inside jokes. However, the message rang true in our Post-Truth Plutocracy, where money is king, and being poor is an atrocity to America. The 1965 NYT Review (http://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/25/books/vonnegut-rosewater.html?_r=0) was interesting to compare the books legacy, 52 years on.

...the experience of music pouring directly against her eardrums -- hers alone -- is a shock that makes her eyes well up; the privacy of it, the way it transforms her surroundings into a golden montage, as if she was looking back on this lark in Africa from some distant future.

3/5. Cheesy, but I think it likely holds up well as a play.