“A strong and honest book.” — Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper's Magazine
“Well-written [and] harrowing.” — Publishers Weekly
“Cooney tells it all with a fine and rare mix of black humor and bleak honesty.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Poignant…terrific…. Consider it a must-read.” — Booklist
“Novelist Cooney has woven keen insights, beloved memories and painful despair into a new memoir.” — BookPage
“Cooney creates that eye-of-the-hurricane feeling, of life destroyed and made meaningless by loss, that this topic deserves.” — Book Magazine
“Heartfelt and exquisitely narrated…Immensely moving and terrifyingly funny.... Vibrant and compelling…. — San Francisco Chronicle
“Death In Slow Motion is a brutally honest, yet remarkably funny and deeply wise book. — Hartford Courant
“Cooney chronicles her mother’s gradual, grinding dissolution…in wry, learned prose.” — Time magazine
“Cooney’s memoir... is too fierce and unsparing, too honest and outraged, to be read complacently.” — Chicago Tribune Book Review
