PositiveThe Washington Post\"By linking his thoughts and predilections with those of others, Shields offers the reader proof that other men feel as he does, want what he wants ... This interlinking takes getting used to, but the payoff can be huge when it’s the poignant examples from Shields’s own life ... By book’s end, we realize that Shields himself is a collage, coming to us in bits and pieces, slipping in and out of the words of others, offering up questions but few answers, forcing us to read between the lines. Many men operate this way, elusive, mute, masked. But Shields wants to be unmasked, to be real even if that means appearing weak or ugly.\
