cat's Reviews > The Authenticity Experiment

What a delight to find this book by Kate Carroll de Gutes. While I wait for her book Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, which won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction and the Lambda Literary Award for memoir, I saw that this was available immediately via Hoopla and I devoured it in one night - a memoir that is so resonant in its attempt to relate honestly via a month-long Facebook challenge, turned book of essays, about grief, panic, and figuring out how to be human and make your way through this world, fantastic bowtie and all.

From a review on Two Sylvia's Press, "In 2012, Kate Carroll de Gutes found herself at a rest stop “ruined with anxiety. And when I say ruined, I mean in a car, in hundred-degree weather, with all the windows rolled up, sobbing and crouched in the passenger’s seat rocking and waiting for the Ativan to take effect. I posted on Facebook, ‘Hello, Redding. Dear gods yer hot.’ A funny post that let my family and friends know where I was, but not how I was.” " Thank goodness that prompted Kate to share so much more about how she *really* was.