"What’s a synonym for raw? Oh how I wish I could express the anguish of loss like Elaine Bleakney. In
Take the Exit Then Exit, she squeezes the big fat mess of family, memory and desire and extracts precise emotional daggers. Bleakney knows what it means to lose, and she knows how to communicate her loss with such buzzing clarity that it made me downright jealous." — Alec Soth
