Multiplicity is meaningful because a focus on language runs like a gold thread through ... Accomplished beautifully ... A holistic ending for a book in fragments, and a final elegant, textual surprise.
[Caldwell] traces her queer liberation with breezy candor ... Caldwell was foolhardy enough to chronicle her life in real time, which led to stellar moments ... Her writing slaps, and readers like it ... As a teacher of writing, she is practiced enough to subvert common tropes, ... It would be easy for Trying to descend into revenge, but Caldwell handles her grief with the detached, informed expertise of a clinician, reporting on her own experience with clarity and without bitterness ... Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature.