PositiveThe Washington PostCompelling ... Don’t Think, Dear is less a memoir than it is a feminist interrogation of the world of ballet as the author experienced it ... Lovers of classical ballet who don’t want to see the sausage being made might do well to avoid But I found myself feeling something like gratitude.
Peggy Orenstein
RaveThe Washington PostEntertaining and informative ... How does she knit this all together? Very skillfully ... Although the soft, woolly sheep on the cover of this book might suggest that Unraveling is a lighthearted yarn about yarn, it really isn’t — though it does contain plenty of laugh-out-loud humor, mostly directed at the author herself. That the book is filled with hard realities and sharp observations shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that Orenstein is an accomplished author known for diving into the weighty and uncomfortable territory of teen sexuality ... Orenstein tenaciously approaches her subject from every angle, literally wrestling it to the ground ... While Orenstein’s garment is the work of an amateur, this book is anything but.
