Eloquent, irreverent, graphically precise.
-- "Vulture"
Cree LeFavour...exhibits a rare willingness to take the reader into difficult and sometimes unpleasant territory...LeFavour's tale is a gritty one...[and] is, among other things, a love story about a dedicated and gifted analyst and his difficult but equally gifted patient..This is a courageous and unsettling memoir, infused with humor as well as pain and marked throughout by a survivor's wry insight.
-- "New York Times"
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.
-- "Harper's Bazaar"
Cree LeFavour's memoir of self-mutilation and temporary insanity isn't for the faint of heart. Rather, it's for anyone who's ever been too scared to feel or too hurt to register pain-in other words, all of us. I don't think I've ever read a more hopeful, searingly intelligent book about the distances we're capable of traveling as we find our way back to the light.
-- "Adam Ross, author of Mr. Peanut"
A searing, brilliant memoir revealing the therapeutic process and its ability 'to turn our ghosts into ancestors.'
-- "Booklist (starred review)"
A riveting exploration.
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
Shockingly intimate.
-- "People"
Meticulously constructed from detailed physician notes and her own journals, the book is both disturbing and deeply cathartic...A searingly eloquent and intelligent memoir.
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir...a story of true self-salvation and transformation.
-- "Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author"
A powerfully, staggeringly honest book that is excruciating in places, and also completely haunting. LeFavour's intimate account of her relationship with her psychiatrist is intensely compelling, forthright, and brave...a fascinating memoir in a category of its own.
-- "Dani Shapiro, author of Slow Motion"
With chilled, unflinching precision, in Lights On, Rats Out, Lefavour lays bare her struggles with self-mutilation, chronicling a terrifying clash between mind and flesh. A vivid, unsettling, and powerful read.
-- "Jonathan Miles, author of Want Not" 
