RaveThe Boston GlobeRadical, profound ... Each section reads as a standalone essay, each one in conversation with the others ... Notes is not a memoir proper. Sharpe does present terrible scenes of subjection from her childhood and professional life, but her self-portrait is oblique, even opaque ... Section by section, Sharpe’s overlapping personal and critical writing becomes more liquid and intense. Her prose simmers, drawing language and narrative into a potent reduction: possibility.
