"searing memoir... unsparing honesty... a compelling journey..."

-- Publishers Weekly, click to read entire review

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 "...a courageously candid tale of love and addiction, disintegration and rebirth...  gripping, harrowing and sometimes shockingly intimate.  It is heartbreaking, and yes; it is also very, very funny indeed...  It delivers an emotional intensity that fiction, by comparison, can only hope to achieve...  a brilliant and inspirational vision of love, death and spiritual redemption...  It is a profoundly moving work for all times." 

-- Jonathan Demme

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"...a universal journey.  His courageous and exquisitely written memoir speaks to us all on the mysteries of who we love and why...  Fearless and often funny...  The story reminds me most of the Somerset Maugham classic, Of Human Bondage, for true passion has an involuntary nature, so artfully evoked here...  an unexpected, haunting, often hilarious odyssey from Hollywood hot spots, Las Vegas, and Key West to rustic, upstate New York, and, unforgettably, to Hungary.  Ron Nyswaner is a poet of the secret self and his first book marks a stellar debut." 

--  Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of the memoirs, Sleeping Arrangements and A Place in the Country

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"...a very, very fine piece of work, unusual, funny, moving, and vivid."

--  Scott Spencer, author of A Ship Made of Paper.

"...a love story at its tenderest.  I gasped, holding my breath, waiting for each page to unfold.  When the final was read, I yearned for more.  It is a heartbreaking, haunting, beautifully written memoir of a soul searching for its mooring and destiny."

--  Da Chen, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Colors of the Mountain.

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"Ron Nyswaner has created a small miracle in this haunting recollection of a love affair doomed from the first exchanged glance.  Told with unflinching truthfulness and a darkly comic appreciation for his own frailties, this is an intimate portrait of obsession, addiction, and ultimately the power of the human heart to believe against all reason."

 --  Michael Thomas Ford, author of Last Summer and Looking for It

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"A rich and pellucid narrative, by turns wry, sexy, and poignant -- and always leavened with a relentless honesty and probity of the true artist...  a powerful and declarative literary debut by one of the most important screenwriters of our time."

 --  Michael Rowe, author of Looking for Brothers and Other Men's Sons