Critical Praise
"A beautiful memoir, humorous and compassionate."
—Newsday
"Irene Vilar is a writer of extraordinary passion, erudition, and intelligence."
—Tobias Wolff
"Stunning. A Lyrical and visionary memoir of depression, Puerto Rican identity, and young womanhood."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Startling, raw, and affecting, a painful exercise in which memoir as therapy becomes memoir as art."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer