Reading Lori Horvitz's The Girls of Usually feels like calling up an old friend and talking late into the night. Deeply intimate and wickedly funny, these are essays to be treasured. -Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana.

Disconnection, alienation, secret and thwarted desire thread through these pieces, along with Horvitz's shame about her lesbianism and Jewish origins. The wriggling away from these twin shames is powerfully documented. Horvitz seems comfortable only in hindsight, yet she stays a steady narrator, guided by fear yet still managing adventure. -Liz Baudler, March 6, 2015, Newcity Lit

When I first heard Lori Horvitz read some of her memoir essays, I laughed so hard my jeans burst open at the waist. The Girls of Usually may be like nothing you've ever read. But as in all the very finest writing, you'll see yourself-and maybe find yourself. -Lynda Schor, author of Sexual Harassment Rules and The Body Parts Shop.

Raw and stirring, late teens, twenty-somethings, and older will appreciate the wisdom Horvitz shares about relationships, both physical and emotional, as she travels the world. -Pallas Gates McCorquodale, Spring 2015, Foreword Reviews

Horvitz writes with a fine balance of wit and poignancy, deftly delivering her stories in a way that feels both personal and universal. The Girls of Usually is a read that stays with you-unsettling, complicated, and wholly rewarding. -Artis Henderson, author of Unremarried Widow

When I say Horvitz is funny, I don't just mean she is witty or playful with words or cleverly amusing (though she is those things, too). I mean she is David Sedaris-level funny, especially when she writes about her early youth. -Sharon Harrigan, February 2015, The Nervous Breakdown

And as a storyteller, Horvitz is a matzo ball of fire..So pour yourself a glass of grape juice and propose a toast to The Girls of Usually. -Allison Fradkin, May 2015, Curve