{"product_id":"lights-on-rats-out-a-memoir-9780802128058","title":"Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cree Lefavour\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Shockingly intimate.\"-\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This gritty account of a woman's struggle with self-abuse describes nearly gothic suffering. It is also a love story about a dedicated and gifted analyst and his difficult but equally gifted patient. Courageous and unsettling, LeFavour's memoir is infused with humor and wry insight as well as pain.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eloquent, irreverent, graphically precise.\"--\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm. Her body was a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride and shame. The thrill of meeting with her psychiatrist, Dr. Adam N. Kohl--whose relationship with Cree is at once sustaining and paralyzing--comes to be the only bright spot in her days. A \"memoir in a category of its own\" (Dani Shapiro), \u003cem\u003eLights On, Rats Out\u003c\/em\u003e brings us closely into these years, recounting a fiercely bright and independent woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Cree LeFavour uses the force of her blisteringly stark, mesmerizingly self-aware prose to not only unearth her own demons, but also equip the reader with the language to articulate our own as well.\"--\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brave and honest memoir...sad and piercingly smart, making for an unforgettable read.\"--\u003ci\u003eBookreporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Startling, beautiful language reminiscent of Plath.\"--\u003ci\u003e Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Searingly eloquent.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Riveting.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780323688599,"sku":"9780802128058","price":1425.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780802128058.webp?v=1778044429","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lights-on-rats-out-a-memoir-9780802128058","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}