Relationship rubberneckers who have directed their fury toward Mulaney have been anticipating a scathing tell-all that would reduce him to ash, and provide retribution and closure for their spurned heroine. They will be very disappointed.
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture
Outward rage clouds the memoir’s best and brightest moments.
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic
In mordant, frank prose, she weaves interludes from her past...into the account of her psychological breakdown.
Sheila McClear,
Los Angeles Review of Books
It takes a sharp and decisive writer to leave a husband of eight years out of her memoir.
Annie Bostrom,
Booklist
Tendler even shares her anger with warmth in this instructive, accepting view of owning and coping with one’s always-evolving mental health..
Publishers Weekly
Devastating.
Kirkus
An intensive, conversational portrait of one woman’s battle with mental illness..