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Average rating: 3.30 · 11,088 ratings · 1,957 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Aesthetica

3.33 avg rating — 5,415 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History

3.12 avg rating — 4,115 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions
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Lovers XXX

3.68 avg rating — 1,460 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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Suicide: An Anthology

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Jell-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom
""Americans realized the doctrine of technologically advanced housework was simply an instrument in capitalism's grand scheme to sell neatly packaged imitation products promising the American dream."

"Anti-anxiety drugs, hormonal birth control, and pa" Read more of this review »
Jell-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom
"breaking my “no star rating for memoirs” rule to give Allie Rowbottom her forever-deserved flowers. i will read (and love) everything she writes forever and ever and ever. "
Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom
"A super weird almost horror like literary fiction that considers beauty ideals and the pressure put on women to achieve them.

I picked this up this debut novel after reading and loving Allie Rowbottom’s most recent book and she is definitely an autom" Read more of this review »
Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom
"Barry Pierce called this "valley of the dolls but for people who know who caroline calloway is" and I'd say that's pretty spot on. For fans of the writing style of Mary Gaitskill and Raven Leilani - a stilted thought process with a deep undertow.

"It" Read more of this review »
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The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
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One of my favorite books of all time. An absolute masterpiece and one that demands the utmost attention and care from its readers.
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Ultranatural by Candice Wuehle
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I loved this novel. A poetic yet feral ode to girlhood, witchcraft, pop stardom, art as a devotional practice and what happens when one's creative fire become objectified, commodified, all topics too often framed as frivolous, simply because they per ...more
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“Maybe she’s a natural beauty, an untouched beauty. The sales pitch for every powder, cream, procedure. But there’s always a consequence, some side effect that keeps away the promised miracle. Acne from pore-clogging foundation. Asymmetry from filler injected willy-nilly. Body dysmorphia from the asymmetry caused by the filler, which even when dissolved leaves your skin stretched out and floppy. It’s the same with pills: Vicodin cuts the pain, but then you can’t shit;”
― Allie Rowbottom, Aesthetica

“I had the privileges attached to health and youth and whiteness. And a wide open something I mistook for beauty. I imagine it now as an invisible mark, an absence where a father went, a fear of who I’d be without a mother. She had always been sick, and even when I pushed her away, even as I tried to be different, I knew to fear her loss. I am responsible; I am not at fault.”
― Allie Rowbottom, Aesthetica

“Natural is better than prosthetic. Natural is moral. Natural connotes a certain kind of woman, a peaceful wise-woman, a woman like my mother.”
― Allie Rowbottom, Aesthetica

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