Very interesting and illuminating writing about both archival work and lesbian erasure. I didn't like everything about this book, but the parts I like I liked a lot. So much more interesting than a traditional biography, even a traditional biography about an unusual figure like Carson McCullers. I think some reviewers have said that the author is intrusive, but I don't agree. I found her deconstructed, sort of archeological approach -- a fragment here, a shard there, ooh here's something big! -- very revealing about both the subject and the process of writing a biography.