"A furious blaze of a book."
—Leah Hager Cohen, New York Times Book Review (Front Cover)
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"Romm's sheer firepower sets her [memoir] apart, capturing all the raw messiness behind her agony."
—Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly, Grade: A

"Poignant...A piercing, heartbreaking reminder that 'loss doesn’t end.'"
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"Despite their confident, straightforward prose and their crystalline surface gloss, which recall Ann Beattie's early slice-of-life stories, Romm's narratives -- call them slice-of-death -- turn out to revel in ambiguities and even a gentle magic....But Romm is a close-up magician, more intimate and less instinctively fabulist, and most of her work leaves room for rational interpretation. No magic here, Romm seems to insist. But of course there is, and it's the oldest kind we know: the ordinary incantation of words and stories to help us navigate the darkness and finally -- for all that this impressive collection protests otherwise -- to hold the end at bay."
— Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review
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