PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe drama of the memoir side is most palpable in the moments when these purgings happen without conscious effort or warning ... The fiction, likewise, is deepened and intensified upon rereading...when we are compelled to imagine Lacey writing the text and arriving at such moments of spontaneous insight ... This demand that we grasp the text not just as a written thing...but also as a writing, as the product of a writer struggling with her material...is Lacey’s great breakthrough.
