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“A hard-won inquiry into how we seek out the truth of ourselves and others in ways that often, by necessity, aren’t straightforward, that arrive in our lives in glimmering bits and shards. . . . Shapland’s book is the kind of state-of-the-form reckoning that makes one wish there were more like it.”
- The New York Times Book Review

“An unpretentious, moving record of love at the margins.”
- The New Yorker

“Following along with Shapland-as-detective is a delight, and the mystery she sets out to solve is one of those wicked unsolvables: how do we account for the apertures in language, history, and identity?”
- The Los Angeles Review of Books

“Her stimulating book is part fan letter, part detective story, and part steely corrective.”
- The New York Review of Books