A review by smae4444
I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell

2.0

the essays rely on an anemic sentimentality and an unchanging, insipid persona (there is a difference between unlikable and intolerable). awkward phrasing and an uninspiring vocabulary often left me confused -- "Sara was the first person I experienced different feelings and emotions on and for, and the first human I knew outside of my family" ?????? endings shoot for poignance and end up stumbling over cliches. it is fortunate that the essays are bound together by this book because some are too flimsy to stand on their own.