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This was challenging. Necessary story about all types of love, but so used to this narrative with an older male pursuer. The anxiety and naïveté of the main character was heartbreaking and difficult to encounter. Likely because it felt relatable. The abusive scenes likewise were deeply uncomfortable

I need to take a break from this type of book for a while…Storylines are starting to run together and I just became exasperated with this one at about 60%.

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Starting this…Somewhat intrigued, even though I read a similar story recently. But curious about this approach!

I'm disappointed because I was hoping I might like this as much as WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE DARK by Michelle Hart, a book I loved about a first year university student in a relationship with an older woman, as much as that story has been told. But I'm finding it overwritten and pretentious, almost too formulaic in an MFA literary fiction kind of way? I might have loved this if I'd been able to read it closer to the protagonist‘s age, though.

I was impatient with 18-year-old Natalie at the start of this novel, newly moved to the big city for university and so timid. So unsure how to act, what to say. She falls for an older woman and I thought I knew where this was going. I was surprised by the direction this novel took and the insights it offers and also how much I was affected by it. #Queer #CanLit #LGBTQ

Across the street was a man in a sweater so woollen that I thought of a hill and a hundred white sheep grazing.

This book was poignant for me, transporting me back to a time in my life when I still had so much to figure out. Fischer really spoke to me in this story - I identified so much with Natalie‘s experience. The storyline is a little predictable, but the writing is beautiful. I‘m excited to read what Fischer writes next.