Critical Praise

"Charles Addams meets Carrie Bradshaw in this honest, sardonic, and touching memoir. Burden's tale makes for riveting and often hilarious reading."

—Jane Stanton Hitchcock, New York Times bestselling author of Social Crimes and Mortal Friends

"It provides a compelling window into a life you're glad you didn't have to live, and the woman who survived it, sense of humor intact."

—The Boston Globe

"An extremely funny writer"

—The New York Times

"In this dark and humorous memoir, Wendy Burden takes us inside the family circus that was her side of the Vanderbilt dynasty, bringing American class structure, sibling rivalry, and the decline of the blue bloods vividly to life. It's a wonderful read."

—Gus Van Sant