“Garnett is a uniquely thrilling writer because of the way she deals almost exclusively in the realm of the borderline unsayable—the things that people hide even from themselves. The Tantrum, animated by good humor and ungovernability, is so daring: Garnett shows herself as breakable where the world wants strength, fearless when the reader feels danger. There is simply no one doing personal writing on her level right now."—Jia Tolentino, bestselling author of Trick Mirror

“The Tantrum is an elegant, funny, totally original story of self-transformation, deepened by the fact that Garnett’s coming-of-age runs alongside that of her identical twin. Few writers are more astute about the way we go looking for ourselves in other people’s bodies and minds.” —Rachel Aviv, bestselling author of Strangers to Ourselves and You Won't Get Free of It 

"The Tantrum introduces a formidable intellect. Jean Garnett's essays create a region of honest and audacious inquiry composed of what is hilarious, what is painful, and above all, what is nearly unbearable."—Megha Majumdar, bestselling author of A Guardian and a Thief

"A beautiful and forensic analysis of intimacy through a range of great loves that brims with wisdom, sorrow, and humor."—Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and The Dry Season

"The Tantrum turns its blazing attention on the most intimate precincts of a life—marriage and motherhood, twinhood and friendship, ambition, desire, grief. Jean Garnett is a born essayist: for her, language is an instrument for mulling and shaping, for thinking and rethinking; the results are fierce, funny, and relentlessly self-implicating, the voice on the page always good company. I couldn't put it down."—Meghan O'Rourke, bestselling author of The Invisible Kingdom