RaveBrooklyn Magazine\"Finishing the book felt like lying in bed after sex with a new lover, hoping arms would close around me but not wanting to ask for it ... Febos’s past heroin use, her birth father’s alcoholism, and the other addictions that manifest throughout Abandon Me are devastating and lyrical, but nothing compares to her \'wrecking shore\' of a love affair. This part of the book, which I can only critique by lamenting that it was not long enough, is as difficult to leave as a toxic relationship. As suffocating as a gaslight.\
