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Very interesting and thought provoking but veryyyyy long

This book is a meander, but an engaging one.
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Fantastic read! Challenge yourself and your cognitive dissonance..
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DID NOT FINISH

Will finish this eventually but just wasn’t in the right brain space for it!

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Stunning writing and thinking. So much respect for this author. I was so impressed with the complexity of this book—both in its issues and in its intertwining of personal narratives, facts, and mythology. It’s so vulnerable and authentic in its acknowledgment of complexity but hope for a brighter future. I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

For any interested bodies, I’ll give the caveat that it should probably be marketed differently. It wasn’t what I expected at first—it’s much more sociological than mythological or biological.
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Couldn't put it down.
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Too many similes for my taste, as though the author's anxieties included being unclear, saying the wrong thing. Her admissions of childhood exaggeration seems to inform adulthood catastrophe imagining, which makes sense in a book examining fear, even if I found some parts naive. There are also many good insights, and some of those similes are quite apt. This is more memoir than wolf study, which is preferable for me, but ymmv. Lots to like, but it wasn't love.

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