"
Tell Me Everything has the DNA of a superhero story, but it's real, and it's the best story I've read in a long, long time. Each scene is a remarkable character study; each development is shocking. All of it is documented, which makes this magical book all the more remarkable. Told with incredible psychological insight and broad ethical attention,
Tell Me Everything is an unstoppable inquiry that delivers justice for many and, finally, peace for the most deserving. That never happens in real life. Except in this case, it did. This book is beautiful, exhilarating, and wildly rewarding."
--Lacy Crawford, author of
Notes on a Silencing
"I devoured
Tell Me Everything over the course of two breathless days, harrowed and deeply moved by Erika Krouse's account of her time as a private investigator. It is at once a thrilling detective story--propulsive as anything by Raymond Chandler but with twice the emotional IQ, an exposé of the devastating culture of misogyny and violence within college football that scorchingly implicates our legal system, and a heart-rending narrative of family trauma and its long legacy. It is the most satisfying, urgent book I have read in a long time."
--Melissa Febos, author of
Girlhood
"Erika Krouse's remarkable
Tell Me Everything affected me more than any memoir I've read in the last decade. Fueled by Krouse's searching intelligence and studded with moments of subtle humor, this astonishing, prescient personal tale possesses the urgency of a great novel. Put simply: I loved it."
--Joanna Rakoff, author of
My Salinger Year
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Tell Me Everything is a reading event in the landscape of memoir unlike anything since Dave Eggers'
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. It's a tale of detection, a mystery, a legal thriller, a whodunit, but it's hardly escapist fare. Ingenious in its approach to impossible subjects--silence, shame, forgiveness--while never forgetting the fierce hopes of the broken and abused, Krouse charts the triumph of even the tiniest steps in the direction of what it means to be okay in a hard world. Krouse's vivid and original memoir is state of the art.
Tell Me Everything is our new standard."
--Charles D'Ambrosio, author of
Loitering
