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This is a memoir but covers so many broad topics as the author excellently melds her experiences into a larger context. Phenomenal but also super dark about her affair, multiple illnesses in several people and so many trigger warnings. I loved it but can‘t easily recommend this to everyone, as it‘s a tough read.

This one busted me up. It was…a lot. I took on a little of the darkness, I think. My reaction is a testament to the skilled delivery of her story, yes, but a stone cold bummer nonetheless. Powerful and deeply serious, this did not leave me feeling hopeful…which, of course, is neither the point of the book nor the writer‘s responsibility. Anyway, hard not to “pick” a book that moved me in a way that I urgently needed to find some joy, stat.

Maybe the best—but definitely not the easiest—book I‘ve read this year. Raw, unfiltered, & unflinchingly honest, Frangello says ALL the quiet parts out loud. She details a years long affair that upends her “perfect” family & changes everything when her secrets are revealed. Her memoir is also about being a woman caged by society‘s expectations, about love & forgiveness, about violence against woman & about coming to know yourself. Very, very good.

Just me, a book, and a cup of coffee. ❤️🌅☕️📖❤️

Went to the bookstore to pick up a book and visit my former coworkers today and they sent me home with some ARCs and damages because book people are the BEST people!!!

I liked this memoir - was hoping for a bit more in the feminist manifesto department, but her self-awareness and unflinching honesty was so moving and powerful.

I was enthralled with the experimental forms in this memoir. In particular, The first section, written in the second person did an amazing job with that POV and as a memoir it was mind-blowing. #ARC #Netgalley