Critical Praise

"[A]n account of a disturbed girl's unwilling passage into womanhood...and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes."

——Diane Middlebrook, Washington Post Book World

"Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny. . . [a] compelling and heartbreaking story."

——Susan Cheever, The New York Times Book Review

"Tough-minded . . . darkly comic . . . written with indelible clarity."

——Newsweek