Grace Llewelyn (The Teenage Liberation Handbook) says this about The Truthtellers: The visceral descriptions of anxiety and other painful feelings that come in the process of telling the truth are a key strength of this wonderful book. People worry that Radical Honesty is too messy, too hurtful. Well, if youre doing it right, it is messy. And it does often hurt. But, as these stories here show beautifully, if youre willing to go through the mess and the hurt, the rewards are unbelievably, unpredictably rich. The kind of love that is possible after somebody tells the truth (in the way Brad and his colleagues define telling the truth), is a whole different animal – fresher, looser, deeper, sweeter, wilder, stronger – than what usually passes for love. I know because I have my own parallel stories to the ones here.
