MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksThe memoir is hindered by a custody agreement and Jamison’s awareness that her ex—and, someday, her daughter—will almost certainly read it ... For all its pleasures, and its renunciation of relationships with men, Splinters is an almost shockingly heteronormative book ... Money is the book’s biggest taboo, a topic Jamison is clearly uncomfortable broaching ... Missed opportunities to engage with often illogical variances in literary fortune, or even just plain old fortune, can make Splinters feel less substantial than it wants to be.
