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Wow. This was fantastic. A beautiful story of how you can feel so alone in the world, and have no idea that every person around you deals with similar feelings and emotions and traumas. How your neighbors are strangers, but live lives that aren’t so far from your own. A “coming of age” story of people who even in their 60’s don’t feel they have it all figured out yet. A story of people just trying to live, and love, and hate, and find peace in turmoil, trying to find where they fit in the world without becoming a part of things they despise. It’s beautifully written, quirky, poetic, deep, raw, and true. I loved this a thousand times more than I thought I would. Absolutely wonderful.

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dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

At times, this book can feel like a bit of a slog to get through. The writing is pretty, but the pieces feel a bit too disconnected and figuring out how they fit together doesn’t always yield a totally satisfying conclusion. However, there are nuggets of painfully sincere and beautiful displays of vulnerability and humanity that are enjoyable. I’m sad to see I felt most fond of the adult characters and their inner lives over the central girl who is a teenager; her plight is not uninteresting nor unrelatable, but I just found I liked the other minor characters a little more.

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

In this ambitious and then painfully pointed examination of contemporary struggle, Gunty employs a unique narrative style and extensive knowledge of her spiritual and philosophical forebears to great effect. The late, Dostoevsky-esque monologue chapter was the novel's highlight and a pleasure to parse through. Gunty has a keen eye for phenomena one passively observes but never articulates. However, when it finally arrived, the scene anticipated from page one felt underexamined.

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