Many of Aron’s truths are so pulverizing in their honesty that they ought to come with a warning, especially for readers new to the gritty realities of recovery.

... stunning. I came to it as a reader with extensive experience with addiction and codependency; reading it was like a first sip of water after a 20-mile run in the heat. Aron is not only a master of metaphor but also a brilliant researcher who braids the story of a romantic life lost to codependency with a variety of other texts.

If 'co-dependency is a girl’s song,' as Nina Renata Aron writes, her scorching memoir proves it can be a beautiful one, too.

... brilliant.

... candid and heart-wrenching.

... captivating.

... a disturbing, richly conveyed story of dysfunction and warped love.

Interwoven throughout with meditations on desire, caretaking, and the role of early feminists like Carrie Nation in the modern temperance movement, the narrative offers dramatic and compelling insight into Aron’s struggles with codependency as it complicates the relationship among femininity, feminism, and enabling.