Chris Kraus interviewed celebrated author and critic Olivia Laing for the Paris Review on the writing of her debut novel, which she praises as "a hilarious mash-up between Acker’s emotional realism and taste for transgression, and the events of Laing’s very twenty-first-century life." The book was also reviewed in the September 17, 2018 issue of the New Yorker. The reviewer Alexandra Schwartz calls it a “funny, fervent novel.” The book was also named is a Best Book of the Fall by Buzzfeed. Norton published the book September 11, 2018.