RaveThe Financial TimesFaludi’s descriptions of her early family life have a Kodachrome vividness. She summons up effortlessly her father the 'household despot', a Hungarian transplant to suburban New York ... Faludi describes her father as a sort of real-life Zelig, and throughout the book — which weaves together the various narrative threads with seamless dexterity — she seeks to understand the mysteries of gender identity. This is tricky territory, and Faludi navigates it with an honest bewilderment ... In the Darkroom is filled with questions of history and identity, but it is above all an extraordinary act of love.
