Editors' Choice The New York Times Book Review
Required Reading The New York Post
100 Best Books of 2008 The San Francisco Chronicle
Top 10 Books of 2008 Time Out Chicago

Manguso has produced a remarkable, clear-eyed account that turns horror into something humane and beautiful.
Emily Mitchell, The New York Times Book Review

Rave reviews from coast to coast agree... The Two Kinds of Decay is beautiful, powerful, captivating, revelatory, devastating, extraordinary. A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.