PositiveThe Chicago Review of Books\"In many ways, Abandon Me echoes Leslie Jamison’s essay collection, The Empathy Exams. Febos meditates over the concept of abandonment quite like Jamison meditates on the idea of empathy ... Febos sketches in staggering detail her adolescent of abandonment: her biological father leaving her mother, and then her stepdad disappearing for months at time for his job ... The true strength of the collection is in the titular memoir, which takes up half of the book. If it was done any other way, it would have seemed tedious and scattered. Instead, it feels more like we are wandering through a period of Febos’s life when she was lost. The memoir is the map.\