We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too soon.

As It Turns Out is Edie's story told from a different point of view - that of her older sister, Alice. As Edie's fame was in the ascendant, Alice was living a completely different life in Manhattan, far away from the Factory and the Chelsea scene. Then, many years later, chancing on Edie's image in a clip from Andy's film Outer and Inner Space, Alice was moved to reconsider Edie's life and try to figure out what made Edie and Andy such iconic figures whose image and collaborative work have endured for decades. How did he anticipate so much of contemporary culture? Who exactly was Edie, that she fascinated Warhol and captured the imagination of a generation?

Wohl tells Edie's story, from her privileged and isolated childhood on a California ranch to her escape first to Boston and then to Manhattan, where in 1965 she had her first fateful encounter with Warhol. As It Turns Out is a meditation on the girl behind the irresistible image, and on the culture that she and Warhol ignited. Throughout this thoughtful, truthful reappraisal of Edie's life, Alice Sedgwick Wohl tries to find a deeper answer to the question: What was the thing about Edie?

"Beautiful . . . Wohl adds sensitive shading and texture to the group portrait of the Sedgwicks that emerged in Edie--and a spray of light" - New York Times

"[As It Turns Out] picks apart how Andy made Edie, how Edie made Andy, and the infinity mirror of their shared identity. A great pleasure of Sedgwick Wohl's writing is that it is sisterly in the truest sense: irritated but protective, dabbed with globs of jealousy . . . Wohl, who has spent decades watching her sister on film, observes her as if looking through a high-powered telescope" - New Yorker

"Wohl's book is not a recollection or a mere revision but rather an attempt to understand the intense attention, even obsession, with Edie and Andy, and how their pairing anticipated the age of the influencer . . . Wohl's description is essential to her (and our) understanding of Edie--but also to understanding ourselves, as we enact this tension on social media every day" - Los Angeles Times

"Unflinching in its honesty, Wohl's memoir provides a disquieting glimpse into one family in America's privileged class, a family made worthy of examination because one of its members--whose presence lives on luminously in her films--remains a source of fascination more than 50 years after her death . . . What remains, Wohl observes in her sensitive, elegantly written memoir, is the work, [Edie and Andy's] films themselves, which represent 'the era of the image, which was just coming into being" - Washington Post

"Wohl . . . debuts with a perceptive account of her sibling's life . . . Striking photos help tell the story, and Wohl's exhaustive examination of her sister's vulnerability and star appeal give this a unique position among the many books on the Warhol scene. The result is a thoughtful exploration of a tumultuous life" - Publishers Weekly

"[Wohl] understands and explains the cultural impact and implications of Edie and Andy in a way nobody ever has. [As It Turns Out] is a brilliant and profound work, and, by the end, an almost unbearably moving one" - Air Mail

"The life and times of Edie Sedgwick have been written about extensively, but never before like this. In As It Turns Out, Sedgwick's sister, Alice Sedgwick Wohl, writes (in the form of a letter to her late brother) about growing up as part of a complicated, grand family, the sister whose free spirit captured millions of imaginations, and the way her truncated life shaped our culture in ways that are still apparent today" - Town and Country

"In this sensitive, deeply considered chronicle, Wohl offers a fresh and incisive look at Edie's headline-grabbing adventures with Warhol, her superstar power, and their symbiotic relationship while also musing on Warhol's prescient anticipation of our obsession with images" - Booklist

"As It Turns Out . . . is the best book I've read pinpointing the New York art scene at a precise pinnacle of change. Along the way, it broke my heart" - Avenue Magazine

"Sharp descriptions of The Factory and Warhol's art . . . and finally, some profound insights about pop art, the expanding culture of narcissism and the nature of celebrity" - New City

"A remarkable biography . . . As It Turns Out is a headstrong book with an enticingly conversational tone and heartbreak at every turn" - Shelf Awareness

"An absorbing portrait" - Kirkus Reviews