"This book is something new and wonderful. It made me remember I was alive."--George Saunders
"Delicious."--Amy Sedaris
"Indescribable but eminently readable... performance art in high-caliber prose."--Washington Post
"Luminous."--Susan Orlean
"At once warm, heartbreaking, and erotic...a strange, witty, sad journey into the depths of the author's imagination...devastating in their unfiltered honesty, even optimism...showcasing [Slate's] singular poetic forms of expression."--Entertainment Weekly
"Funny, lyrical, and sometimes strange, these essays pulse with life..."
--Publishers Weekly
"Imaginative, funny, affecting, and hard-to-classify... A wonderfully weird, incomparable, and utterly enjoyable book that readers will be glad simply exists."--Booklist (starred review)
"At times whimsical in its flights of fancy and always surprising in the moments of lyrical grace it offers, Slate's book celebrates the transformative power of surrendering to love and life. Delightfully offbeat and unexpectedly moving."--Kirkus Reviews