“A terrific, terrific book.”

Anthony Bourdain, New York Times bestselling author and host of Parts Unknown

“A high-octane cocktail of radiant ink, wild anecdotes, bad behavior, and gritty truths.”

Tom Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“…Tillett Wright uses the adversity he has known as his power, channeling his own pain into a rallying cry for those whose voices seldom get heard.”

Interview Magazine

“He is a narrator you want to root for, a person who is defiantly not defined by circumstances.”

The Washington Post

“The prose is beautiful and aches with emotion.”

Publishers Weekly

“With Darling Days, iO has opened the door to the house he has always carried on his back. He’s let us in on his trip, on a search for home.”

Nan Goldin

“Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than iO's mother's. Rhonna, a showgirl and young widow, was a mercurial, erratic glamazon. She was iO's fiercest defender and only authority in a world with few boundaries and even fewer indicators of normal life. At the center of Darling Days is the remarkable relationship between a fiery kid and a domineering ma--a bond defined by freedom and control, excess and sacrifice; by heartbreaking deprivation, agonizing rupture, and, ultimately, forgiveness.”

Published by Ecco, 2016.

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