SOURCE: "Thinking Small," in Books in Canada, Vol. 15, No. 5, June-July, 1986, pp. 12-14.

In the following excerpt from a review of Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, Yanofsky finds Thomas's talent for depicting poignant moments well suited to the short story form.

[In Goodbye Harold, Good Luck] Thomas writes about day-to-day regret and loneliness with an unflinching eloquence. It's almost as if she's testing the resilience of her characters, particularly the females. Edging their way out of a failing marriage or a bad relationship, they discover that independence brings with it a whole new set of restrictions. In the title story, there is this revealing description of a woman on her own: "She had felt safe, or at least safely defined, so long as her daughter was with her. . . . But now in the lounge of the Inn . . . Francine was exposed for what she really was—a woman alone in a bar...