“Sonya Lea tells her extraordinary story extraordinarily well. She has a rare ability to bring readers to the places where love and sex intermingle, collide, or go their separate ways. Wondering Who You Are is an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love.”
Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

“Sonya Lea has spun a love story for the ages. I have been searching for a long time for a book that grapples so perfectly with the complications and joys of caring so completely for another. Here it is. Wondering Who You Are is an important contribution to the cannon of illness literature.”
Christa Parravani, Her: A Memoir

“This meditation on love and loss left me filled with wonder. Sonya Lea considers every possibility—the full span of understanding, from science to shamans to sex—in an effort to rediscover her husband and, in the process, what makes us uniquely human: our memories of who we are. Words like ‘honest’ and ‘intimate’ don’t even begin to describe this remarkable journey.”
Brian Castner, The Long Walk: A Story of War

“Into the unknown, into the mundane, into the weird, into the intimate ordinary, into sex and despair and what love really looks like. Sonya Lea’s book does everything memoir ought to do, and something more: It tenderly, relentlessly explores the nature of identity itself.”
Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses

“Sonya Lea’s closeup, incisive memoir carries the reader breathlessly through her heartache, loss, love, and rediscovery. She delves bravely into the taboos of caretaking and examines the conflicts between love and duty, resistance and submission, distance and desire, as well as the grief inherent in the not-knowing.”
Nicole Hardy, Confessions of a Latter Day Virgin

“Sonya Lea’s is an extraordinary story. A wrenching, deeply honest exploration of love and identity that made me question my ideas about memory, about gender, about marriage and family and faith. About the whole human rigmarole. Her story does what the best stories do: it made me think about life in an entirely new way.”
Suzanne Morrison, Yoga Bitch: One Woman’s Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment

“An incredibly intimate and honest memoir, Wondering Who You Are shows more vividly than any work of nonfiction I’ve read in years the endlessly complex and delicate nature of identity. In particular, the book movingly reveals how mutable all relationships are, how metamorphosis on one side of a partnership necessitates metamorphosis on the other—we are all constantly changing.”
Peter Mountford, The Dismal Science

“An intense and accomplished memoir... This sweet, erotic, wrenching story asks quintessential questions about memory, the constructed self, and love—its challenges and deep compensations.”
Priscilla Long, The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life

“This story is strong and strange and haunting and moving all at once... [She] has a voice and tone that are so truthful and authentic.”
Bret Lott, Dead Low Tide & Jewel (Oprah Book Award)

“Sonya is one of the few writers I’ve encountered whose brilliance transcends form; so whether crafting an essay, a script or a short story, her talent shines.”
Warren Ethredge, The High Bar (PBS)