A quote from William Logan, The New Criterion

"More than fifty years ago, during the Truman administration, Sharon Olds’s parents tied her to a chair, and she has been writing about it ever since. The Unswept Room[1] revisits the realistic dioramas of her childhood, pays homage to the frequently dusted waxwork head of that villain her father—you think you’ve stumbled, not into some strange museum of natural history, but into Madame Tussaud’s."