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176 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 2, 2023

In the past, love used to be this elusive promise of future happiness, a fleeting, drugging sensation I’d desperately tried to hold on to, but it had drifted away before I could learn what it meant.
Now I stood firmly on the ground, and I didn’t have to try to catch some flimsy feeling swirling in the air around us. The love grew in me, firm and stable like my bones. True and right. It would make me stronger.

"What could I do to keep him forever? Knot him. Get him pregnant. The idea sobered me up. We met yesterday." (p. 58)
"I liked how small he felt in my lap—I could easily carry him around." (p. 58)