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reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.75
Definitely a no plot, just vibes book. Some of the vignettes really worked for me, while others didn’t work as well. Cusk does a really excellent job of rendering men who are threatening and unsettling in precisely the way so many “non-threatening” men can be. And she has an incredible ability to capture all of the ways humans are pompous and self-absorbed and the strangeness of so much conversation, especially in contexts where we don’t know each other.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Sexual harassment
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