Larger questions about identity and the lasting importance of the fashion and art industry that Mak has staked his career upon feel elided ... Too much time is spent introducing and following party people who sound more important to Mak the status-seeker than Mak the author of a book about his own life.
A wealth of observations on topics ranging from transgressive literature... to the power of the erotic ... After fashion, career, psychosis, and recovery, a personal essayist finds "grace in the ordinary.
An intellectually rigorous memoir-in-essays ... By turns heartbreaking, enlightening, and frenzied, this burrows deep in the reader’s psyche and doesn’t let go.
