RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksWhat Mann’s attempting to do, here and elsewhere in the collection, is metabolize his own experience as a child by way of his life as a parent. Yet, rather than use his child as an object through which to live (or relive, as it were), he engages her with a curiosity that, though jaded by age, remains imbued with possibility ... The writer is a messy parent, but so are we all. Here and elsewhere, Mann’s neuroses aren’t distractions—they’re the primary sites of inquiry.
