I really enjoy Tracey's art, but I wasn't entirely sure she'd be able to pull off a full-length autobiography. I was so wrong. This book is vivid, highly readable and very well-crafted. It deserves a place right up there with This Boy's Life, Stop-Time and other great coming-of-age memoirs. At times, Tracey does crank up the amp on the same themes that inform her art. There's quite a heaping portion of sexuality and an undercurrent of metaphysics, but none of it detracts from what is ultimately a very affecting and sympathetic story.