The most engaging feature of [A Little Raw on Monday Mornings] is its wonderfully honest realism. It is so plain at times that it is tiring; the reality is obvious, familiar, and occasionally a bit flat. At its best, however, the story is bright and appealing; and at its very infrequent worst, it still has the merit of a rare sort of artistic integrity….

There may be a touch of unreal coincidence in the circumstances leading to Gracie's pregnancy; and there is too much of the type, too little of the individual in the character of Terry, Gracie's fellow worker and confidante. Otherwise there is an abundance of real artistry in this clear, sometimes inevitably depressing account of a poor, stumbling woman caught in a sorry situation. The stuff of tragedy is not here—Gracie is much too pathetic to be tragic; but there is plenty of human...