MixedThe New York Times Book Review\"Some of the most enjoyable parts of Abandon Me come when Febos explores her histories, weaving in tidbits like the popularity among Nantucket sea wives of the ?‘he’s-at-home,’ an early ceramic dildo\' ... Less successful are the sections given over to Febos’s obsessive affair with a married woman named Amaia. As she recounts Amaia’s increasingly possessive behavior, we feel her pain but don’t see more than the familiar outlines of someone who loves a person she knows is bad for her, tries and repeatedly fails to leave before she finally does. Her digressions into texts ranging from Homer and Jung to Peter Jackson’s early film Heavenly Creatures are often fascinating, but they come to feel like attempts to make the affair stand in for more than what it wants to be, or to provide relief from its ultimate hollowness.\
Michelle Tea
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewIn Tea’s hands, sobriety, love and something like happiness are stranger and more unsettling than bohemian decadence could ever hope to be ... Black Wave retains the off-kilter realism of the best apocalyptic writing: The nightmare is like our world, only a little more so.
