Critical Praise

"Well-written [and] harrowing."

——Publishers Weekly

"A strong and honest book."

——Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper's Magazine

"Cooney tells it all with a fine and rare mix of black humor and bleak honesty."

——Kirkus Reviews

"Cooney has woven keen insights, beloved memories and painful despair into a new memoir…This brutally honest chronicle [is] rich with darkly humorous metaphor."

——BookPage

"Novelist Cooney has woven keen insights, beloved memories and painful despair into a new memoir."

——BookPage

"Poignant…terrific…. Consider it a must-read."

——Booklist