"Treadway's stories reveal a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth."

-The New York Times Book Review

"Treadway examines and exposes emotions that few would readily admit to."

-Publishers Weekly

"Treadway's prose is clear and searingly direct."

-The Boston Globe

"Treadway is at her best when she depicts characters colliding with one another in the blind clutch of life."

-The Rumpus

"In I Felt My Life With Both My Hands, a moving, thoughtful and heartfelt collection, ordinary people and ordinary encounters yield extraordinary moments of insight and inspiration."

-Gish Jen, author of Bad Bad Girl

"The women who narrate the remarkable stories in Jessica Treadway's I Felt My Life With Both My Hands find the same kinds of hopes and sorrows filling and emptying their hearts-overtaking or abandoning them with power so startling but so intimately familiar that we recognize on every page our own sense of how often we are strangers most of all to ourselves."

-Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize Winner, author of Tinkers

"Beautifully written, complex, and oh so smart."

-Eileen Pollack, author of In the Mouth

"Treadway awakens us to the marvel of our ordinary lives."

-E.J. Levy, author of The Cape Doctor

"Treadway is masterful."

-Lily King, author of Euphoria

"I know of few authors who can write with the intelligence, sensitivity, and grace of Jessica Treadway. I know of none who can write with such courage."

-Elizabeth Berg, author of Earth's the Right Place for Love