“Sarah Thyre has a remarkable story to tell, and she tells it, well, remarkably.”
– David Sedaris, author of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“Sarah Thyre just happens to be a marvelous writer.  Hers is a truly distinct voice with a twisted poet’s gift for the perfect turn of phrase.”
– David Rakoff, author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable

“Sarah Thyre was a naughty, nasty child who grew up to be one of the funniest people in America, and to write the most hilarious book I’ve read in years. There’s a connection between those two things, and maybe it’s this: go ahead all you good boys and girls, you overachievers.  You may well make it through Harvard Medical School but you will never, ever be this interesting.”
– Haven Kimmel, author of She Got Up Off the Couch and A Girl Named Zippy

“Fiercely original…A wry strength and a sassy wit in her hilariously vain attempts to rise above a lower-middle-class upbringing in this terrific coming-of-age memoir.” 
– Library Journal

“Witty, mildly raunchy…[Thyre] has a sharp ear for dialogue and a keen eye for the slights and cruelties that children and adolescents blithely inflict on each other and on the adults around them….When shit happens-her father is disappointingly indifferent to her needs, the family vacation ends disastrously - Thyre doesn’t bemoan the situation. Rather, she reports it with zest and a twist of wry.”
– Kirkus Reviews

“[Thyre’s] journey through a dysfunctional minefield, recounted with wit and bite, makes for noteworthy reading.”
–Boston Herald

“Brilliantly observed and remarkably humane, Dark [at the Roots] is a charmer (3.5 stars).”
– People

“Brutally incisive, shining a light on the foibles and inadequacies of every person appearing in its pages without turning any of them -- her sickly sisters, ignorant teachers, or her faith-gripped mother -- into grotesques… Thyre’s memoir transfixes, amuses and occasionally horrifies. She manages to provoke all of these reactions with the casual intimacy of a well-spoken confidant.”
–Bookslut

“Prepare to laugh on every page.”
–Blueprint

“You’ll be highly entertained as Thyre, dubbed the “family liar,” gets into her fair share of debacles and embarrassing exploits.”
–OK! Magazine

“Written with plenty of snap and no self-pity.” (A-)
–Entertainment Weekly

“If you’ve ever looked at comic actors and wondered just where all that quirk was coming from, Strangers With Candy actress Sarah Thyre’s Dark at the Roots will give you a very good clue…Her language is a fresh a her humor.”
–BUST