a memoir coming April 2027

“A lush, generous, fecund, sweaty, animal masterwork of human vulnerability. Exquisite as an orchid, primal as a feeding frenzy, Angela Garbes' writing contains more life than seems possible. Somehow in its tender specificity this book manages to capture the whole world.” — Lindy West

“Across her body of work, Angela Garbes has pledged her commitment to the raw and ungovernable, the everyday maelstrom, the beauty in all these things. Never Too Much feels like an unexpected bloom that sprang from this soil. It is a history of self-alienation and a recounting of Garbes’ impure and beautiful quest to finally find in herself a home. It’s uniquely candid, and tremendously, intimately moving, from a writer of remarkable power and strength.”

— Jia Tolentino

“I inhaled this book like it was an endless cup of noodles. Moving through recovery, motherhood, daughterhood, aging, and art making, Angela Garbes implores us to see what can grow in that trembling yet fertile compost of midlife. A profound reckoning of what it means to undo shame and ‘badness’ even when we want to waltz right into it.”

— Jane Wong, author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

“Angela Garbes has written a memoir of striking clarity that is intimate, searching, and unsparing about addiction, family, and the ways we hide from ourselves. With vivid detail, Garbes captures a life in all its contradictions, creating a story both deeply personal and universally true. I couldn’t look away.”

— Kate Baer, author of How About Now

“When I say that I felt this book physically, I mean that Angela Garbes has written an arrow straight through the chest. Never Too Much is a revelation: as scorching as it is tender, as precise as it is lyrical. Garbes pulls at the fraying seams of her life and makes art from it.”

— Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars

“A searing portrait of the artist as woman in mid-life, the artist as an addict, the artist as a mother, daughter, wife, and flawed human being working through pain. Never Too Much is a deeply humane, courageous, beautiful book that left me changed, and that will change others too. It is one of the most moving renderings of the struggle for self-knowledge and self-expression that I have ever read.”

— Lydia Kiesling, author of Mobility

“Never Too Much is tender, courageous, and packed with so much pain, tension, self-doubt, and ambition, I felt like I was right there, listening to the author's heartbeat. And isn't that the whole point of all of this? To show ourselves so that others can feel seen?”

— Jennifer Romolini, author of Ambition Monster