Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts

There are good parts but parts where I'm too untherapied and too homosexual to connect

On further reflection: the problem is this book tells not shows and then tells you over and over and over again

One of the many things I admire about this book is how Claire uses what seem like formal "tricks" (both with the material text and the underlying narrative structure) without producing even a hint of ironic distance—if anything the "tricks" make the writing more raw and revealing.