The writing style reminded me a lot of Joan Didion. I enjoyed how viserally Veronica Gornick described New York, her feelings of isolation, her relationship with Leonard and her mother, and the complexity of friendship and how this changes through life. I really connected with some parts, other parts I found tone deaf and a bit pretentious. Good overall though. 

Some quotes that I underlined: 

"I've always been pulled around by forces beyond my control. I'd do what people expect of me, and then I'd get anxious. For years I knew no condition but anxiety. One day I realised that the anxiety had formed me. After that there was no surprises." 

"In useful solitude I am there, keeping myself imaginative company, breathing life into the silence, filling the room with proof of my own sentient being."