"It is a perfect book; not in the way that gemstones are, but in the way that a Saturday can be. There are treasures here on every page."
--Washington Post

"If Nora Ephron had applied her wit and acuity to the lifestyle celebrated in Sex and the Single Girl, it might have read something like Better than Sane."
--Shelf Awareness

"Deadpan, smart, hypersensitive, and mordantly funny."

--Booklist

"The most radical anti-memoir."

--Bookforum

"Rose writes of her life rather than examining it, and her haunting memoir is exquisitely detailed."

--Publishers Weekly