“A magical, tender, revealing, rude, honest, very funny and very vulnerable book. It is about more than McNally’s gift for creating magic-making restaurants—it also powerfully describes what goes on in his head: the self-reflection, the intellectual ambition, the relentless self-doubt. McNally writes with a novelist’s feel for what happens in the powerful silences between people. I was blown away. This is a frickin’ masterpiece that will be read and talked about for a long time.”