“In this touching memoir, Treska ponders the lifelong imprints of class and community.” –The New York Times Book Review

“A wry and loving portrayal of life on the margins and the poignancy of a great scam.” Harper’s Bazaar

“Excellent…Gatsbyesque” The Wall Street Journal


“This winning debut memoir… amounts to an arresting and compassionate self-portrait.” —Publisher's Weekly

“A poignantly affecting memoir about surviving and thriving.” —Kirkus Reviews


 “Treska knows her family’s vocabulary by heart and speaks it with equal parts love, loyalty, chagrin and ambivalence.” –BookPage 


“Straight talk!” —Gordon Lish
 
“A powerful, poetic memoir that brilliantly blends a history of Boston and its surrounding areas with the history of a fascinating—and at times functional—family. A swaggering storyteller of the highest degree, Nicole Treska will have your heart breaking on one page, and your eyes filling with tears of laughter on the next. Filled with hardscrabble characters and hard-earned lessons, here is a magnificent tale that is as New England as it gets.”  —Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
 
“A compelling portrait of the Treska family and its fascinating mythology. Hard-scrabble and beautiful, this is a poignant exploration of a working-class community, and the remnants of home as a vessel for memory… lyrical, keen, and full of tenderness, I’ll never look at Boston or its people the same way again.” —Safiya Sinclair, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of How to Say Babylon


 “Teeming with affecting prose, dark humor, and endless style, Wonderland is a hopeful, empathetic memoir about an unforgettable American family. Nicole Treska is a formidable debut writer with a beautiful heart and a tremendous ear for language.”—Kimberly King Parsons, National Book Award-Nominated Author of Black Light and We Were the Universe“

This memoir is not to be ignored. Written with urgency, vulnerability, and compassion, Wonderland is under-the-skin unforgettable.” —Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter

“Far as I can tell, Nicole Treska is a singular voice: one full of heart, humor, and wisdom, one charting a world I knew little to nothing about…The way she sees the world all her own—what's better than that?”—Mitchell Jackson, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Whiting Award Winner, Author of The Residue Years and Survival Math