"In this moving and propulsive collection, the author explores how trauma transforms us--and the miraculous ways trauma itself can be transformed. In A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man one woman picks up the pieces of a typical all-American girlhood: the abusive boyfriends, the sexual assaults, and the pervasive feelings of isolation and shame. I emerged from this collection oddly hopeful about the process of healing, especially if it can bring us a book like this." - Alice Bolin, author of Dead Girls

"These essays held me as rapt as a great conversation with a smart and funny stranger. Sarah Kasbeer is a born raconteur whose stories name some of the loneliest parts of growing up female and turn them joyful with insight and levity." - Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me

"This book is a treasure; it is a dagger and an emancipation, a slice and a stitch, as devastating as it is darkly funny. To say I loved this book would be an understatement. Kasbeer has a rare gift of exposing her human flaws and secrets--inescapable truths we all carry--then kicking down the door and tracking down a path to redemption without taking any shortcuts or prisoners." - Mira Ptacin, author of The In-Betweens and Poor Your Soul