RaveThe New York Times Book Review... a testament to Brady’s quality of said character, her tenacity in the face of a world not yet ready to grapple with all she brings to it. Her memoir is not a journey of self-improvement: There is no concrete, happy ending outside of her eventual diagnosis.
Heidi Julavits
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewThough thematically knotty, Julavits’s writing is a life raft: elegant without sentimentality ... Her prose is buoyed by a sharp sense of humor ... Directions to Myself is less a memoir of parenting and more a memoir of developing personhood.
Amelia Possanza
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review[Possanza] has bridged the historical and the memoir ... The more time she spends covering her bases, the more difficult it is to see what’s under her feet. This is a shame because Possanza tells compelling, loving stories of lesbians who were not yet “lesbians,” as we’ve come to know them.
Jacqueline Holland
MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewHolland seems determined to avoid the eroticism of other recent vampire tales ... In fact, The God of Endings and its protagonist so vehemently refuse to be defined by the monster of it all that it’s hard to tell whom the book is for. It’s too vampire-evasive for the monster crowd, too ethereal for the supernaturally averse ... The 1830s, the 1940s and even 1984 don’t feel all that different. Lacking in immersive world-building, these sections are repetitive ... Holland’s lush descriptions help to transcend the familiar beats and cyclical structure of The God of Endings.