Reviews round-up
My Good Bright Wolf
by Sarah Moss
6 of 7 critics positive
8 reviews: 6 positives, 1 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“extraordinary memoirs chronicle the ways mental illness carves chasms in a life”
Two extraordinary memoirs chronicle the ways mental illness carves chasms in a life
“haunting, revelatory memoir littered with sentences you want to read again and again”
How an eating disorder took over Sarah Moss’s life
“bleak, often brilliant personal history”
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss: A bleak, often brilliant personal history
“powerfully original and unsettling”
From a Novelist, a Chilling True Fable of Anorexia (Published 2024)
“I wolfed it down”
My Good Bright Wolf, by Sarah Moss review - 'I wolfed it down#
“terrifying memoir is proof that anorexia can hit at any age”
Sarah Moss’s terrifying memoir is proof that anorexia can hit at any age
“marred by self-critical asides”
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss review – trauma response
“recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation”
A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
