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Praise for A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: A Memoir…

"Intense, controlled, a memoir-as-fever-dream." —The New York Times

"It's a rare pleasure to be in the hands of a memoirist both old enough and good enough to wring this kind of coherence from life's chaos." —The New York Times Book Review

"Like a string of Chinese firecrackers." —Washington Post

"This woman traffics in the truth." —Anne Lamott

"A wholly original, beautiful book." —Michael Downing, author of Life with Sudden Death

"The vividness of those people and the hard-to-describe implicit sanity and moral clarity that underly the always-about-to-get-out-of-control voice gets to feel funny, sane, heartbreaking, and so deeply intelligent . . . It is just brilliant, and true." —Robert Hass, author of Now & Then