About the Author

Jane Vandenburgh is the award-winning author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset, as well as Architecture of the Novel, A Writer's Handbook and The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, A Memoir. She has taught writing and literature at U. C. Davis, the George Washington University, and, most recently, at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Callfornia. A native of Berkeley, she has returned to live with her family in the West, and with Wayne Thiebaud, her dog.

Reviews

"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