RaveThe New York Times Book Review... a worthy new entry in that pantheon of deconstruction. Told in a series of fragments spanning the teenage years in which bipolar Juliet’s life unravels, it is a narrative that insists on its own severity ... Juliet’s level of general intensity can make Martin Amis characters read like prudes ... Self as trauma is evident in the novel’s bones. Reading her staccato, impressionistic fragments is like mainlining chaos: Juliet’s life has not been polite enough for chapters ... This collapse of demographic boundaries is one of trauma’s only gifts, and one that becomes increasingly evident as the narrative progresses.
