Yeeeeah. We try not to badmouth other multis' work, because it is too easy to fall into jaded smugness ("we're not like THOSE people") that quickly becomes paralytic artistic block ("what if I really am those people and making anything proves it?") but we get the same feeling from Gift.

Living With Your Selves has aged badly in many places, but it still has some useful stuff in it, stuff we ourself are planning to try despite being old hands. Gift, though, does not, and its insistence on the host/alter dichotomy where the host is in charge and all alters are subordinate grates. I still want people to know about it, because history is history, but engh. (And in our case, what Pia would call our host MUST NOT be in charge. Her time is done, and we run things for her.)

EDIT: It seems Ms. Pia passed on last year: https://www.altavistamortuary.com/obituary/jacklyn-pia