Publishers Weekly’s advance review says “Rise and Shine” is “engrossing” and its prose is “top notch.” Booklist’s reviewer calls it “a lavishly perceptive homage” to New York City, and writes that Quindlen’s “transcendentally agile and empathetic observations of the human condition underlie the Fiztmaurice sisters’ discovery of the transience of fame and the permanence of family.”