RaveThe Kenyon ReviewThrough a compelling amalgam of literary criticism, memoir, and cultural criticism, in The Recovering...Leslie Jamison traces the alcoholism and subsequent recovery attempts of several famous writers, including herself ... Jamison’s personal narrative grows increasingly nuanced as it becomes braided with cultural and literary criticism and all these pieces of other people’s lives ... Jamison’s stunning \'speculative autobiography\' allows us to encounter her subterranean animal right at the moment it pops its head out, made luminously visible by her writing.