PositiveWillamette WeekHameister approaches each self-appointed challenge with an unflagging sense of humor that lifts even some of her safer choices ... Yet too often it seems a stronger narrative was cut for space and levity. Okay lags with an 11-page, Lysistrata-style condemnation of the Brazilian wax, a well-trodden tirade in which Hameister herself seems to go MIA, as if it were written out of obligation ... She writes movingly about the complicated way her first sexual relationship came to a gut-punching end, and her sparse description of her father\'s suicide—which she links to her OCD—is devastating and restrained.
