kimannjosouth 's review for:

The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter

5.0

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This book is so good! I read it so fast because I couldn't stop reading it. You really get to feel for the narrator and the world she lives in seems only one or two steps away from reality, yet the metaphors are just inexact enough to be nonobvious and unique when they should be, and otherwise relevant when they should be. This is a book about bodies, appearances, what it's like to live in a body, and a female-sexed body, in the world, capitalism, family, love, loss, depression, and the strange borderline between truth and fiction, amongst other things, and I enjoyed it cover to cover and you will too.