Closing Costs is a page-turner that does for today's real estate market what The Bonfire of the Vanities did for the stock market of the eighties.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
" ... chronicles the wackiness of the high-buck Manhattan real estate market through the experiences of a group of New Yorkers whose lives intersect in interesting ways. It's a fun-to-read, engaging look at how the other half lives, and buys and sells."

From USA Today:
" ... the deft, droll depiction of a societal moment in which walls, and lives, go up and down 'like hemlines' resonates even west of the Hudson."

From the Tampa Bay Observer:
" ... completely entertaining, wickedly funny and observant ... The suspense and comedy are nicely balanced by a satisfying resolution to this delightful novel."

From the New York Post:
" ... in New York, it's not so much about what you do, who you date or even how you look - it's about where you live.  [Margolis is] a very funny chronicler of this absurdity, in a piece of fiction, no less."

From the New York Daily News:
" ... a bubbling brew of booms and busts which [Margolis] spices with the bald-faced fakery of sleazy  contractors, diabolical domestics and market-savvy pornographers." 

From Publishers Weekly:
" ... well-drawn characters complement Margolis's wry observations on Manhattan life
and the ups and downs of marriage and career."

 From Booklist:
"Fans of Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen will revel in this zesty tale of penthouse envy
and dot-com detumescence set in Manhattan's lofty world of up-and-coming millionaires and down-and-out billionaires ... Margolis adroitly targets New York society's egregious excesses
with laserlike accuracy."