The most poetic account of a woman coming to terms with her childhood being raised in a CIA household. The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities listed My CIA as a top ten book for 2012: Naming My CIA as a top ten book for 2012, Sarah Lee Fox of The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH) wrote, "Ms. McCord is a charming writer, and I was knocked out by my My CIA. There is a mix here of the normal and ordinary life, and of the very exotic if now existentially threatening previous life . . . She's a stylist well capable of blending the banal and...

Michael Martone, choosing Katherine McCord's RUN SCREAM UNBURY SAVE as Autumn House Press' Creative Nonfiction Prize, calls the literary memoir 'extraordinary, ' 'a book's BOOK. A map more detailed than the thing it represents. . .with goddamn gumption and infinite
grace.' Katherine McCord hilariously and poignantly captures living, as a writer/person/mother/professor/wife, that is, as anyone, overly aware and stunned by the time we are in, this often fascinating but very difficult age.