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karenreads1000s's review
4.0
Short story found online. Body image dystopia. https://blog.pmpress.org/2021/02/15/the-pill/
mx_cronenbabe's review
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
Read this collection because I’d read The Pill previously in a different short fiction anthology and I loved it so much. Thank you Meg Elison
cebolla's review
4.0
Some of the stories were alright, some were really good. She definitely has a distinct voice and I can't wait to read her award-winning novel!
courtneyfalling's review
fast-paced
4.0
This was recommended to me by a Potter’s House employee as similar to Her Body and Other Parties and they were soooo right about me loving the first story. This vacillates between more nonfiction/interview/critical literary essay and really good short stories—I essentially wanted an all short story collection and this would’ve been 5 stars. Super underrated.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Death of parent
mjtal's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia
Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, and War
alexisparade's review
3.0
Sci-fi with an actual fat politic feels SO exciting and rare, but unfortunately the back half of this collection really suffers from the post 2016 US election trend of white women creatives feeling WAY over-inspired to make art about their own experiences with racism. “Such People In It”, which speculates on what would happen to the United States if trump won a second term, was like. Especially cringeworthy to get through.