![–The New York Times Book Review on <em>Behave</em>](https://sohopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blog-00.png)
Rayner could not have found it easy to be exiled from the lab, or to raise her sons according to a behaviorist program, which regards ‘mother love,’ as the real Rayner put it, as ‘an instrument which may inflict a never-healing wound.’ … This novel suggests the pain of wanting, and failing, to behave.