"A very important book, particularly to the countless number of people who aren't sure what's wrong with them but are suffering from negative thinking, erratic behavior, and dark moods associated with clinical depression." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Prozac Nation gives a view of every aspect of depression: the self-pity, the courage, the flashes of insight, the despair, and the endless, very moving struggle, simply, to live." --Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides

"(Wurtzel) is smart, she is funny . . . she is thoughtful and . . . she is very, very brave. Wurtzel portrays, from the inside out, an emotional life perpetually spent outrunning the relentless pursuit of what she describes as a black wave, often sacrificing her likability on the altar of her truth . . . like all provocateurs, she poses questions which make you think" -- Vanity Fair

"Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song . . . a powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The saddest, funniest, and ultimately, most triumphant book about youthful depression I've come across. It reads like a mixture of J.D. Salinger and Sylvia Plath, with some Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen thrown in for good measure . . . Elizabeth Wurtzel is one canny and entertaining observer of her generation: If you've been wondering why Kurt Cobain meant what he did - what it feels like to be young, gifted, and black of spirit - this book is the CD, tape, video, and literary answer all in one." -- Daphne Merkin

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