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



 
 
 
  
  