Book 7/40 of 2025 ✨
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pickCassie is born with a generational deformity. This novel takes you through different stages of her life, and how she navigates relationships (platonic, familial, romantic and more). This novel is lyrical and dour. It alternates from personal occurrences to visions that seem like coping mechanisms or longings.
It was a fast, interesting read. The glum tone may not be for everyone.
so-soDespite all of the positive reviews, this one did absolutely nothing for me. I felt very disconnected from the main character and never quite developed a bond with her or her story. Between a so-so and a pan for me.
About to begin this book which I‘ve been meaning to get to for the longest time!
Calming my heart, taking deep breaths.
Sometimes highly anticipated books do that to you, am I right? 😊🤓
pickSurreal, grotesque, gripping—this was a hell of a book. Often I found myself unsure whether I wanted to laugh or cry or both. I have been shaken by this book. Going to need to spend some time thinking about it.
pick5/5🌟
READ - THIS - BOOK! Seriously if you read anything for the rest of the summer let it be this! I love love loved it so much! It was so different from anything I have read....ever! Such an wonderful, perceptive look at the female experience. The narrative is so powerful and her prose are beautiful. The imagery she creates with her words blew me away. Reminiscent of Carmen Maria Machado, Samantha Schweblin's work.
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pickCassie is born with a knot, just like her mother and grandmother. She enters a world of bullying, inadequate medical care, isolation and boredom. Outside of school her life seems intended for repetition of pain and cleaning the walls with lemons, while her father and brother work in the meat quarry, but her life is vivid with visions that provide some form of escape, although it isn't always positive. ⤵️
?Coming July 2019?
"Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.”
—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist ?
