Status Updates From Boating for Beginners

It was the first time that Gloria had been shocked out of her autonomous inner life. She lived at the bottom of a deep pool where her mother and the rest of the world were only seen as vague shadows on the surface.
Now she was being forced into a graceless breaststroke to find out what everyone else was talking about.

It was perhaps this book alone that had saved Gloria from becoming a complete emotional invertebrate.

At eighteen she realised that she would never have the bone structure to be decadent…

i can’t believe how casual this woman is about losing her whole arm 😭😭

I can not believe this was written in 1985 when it hits so close to home these days

slightly confusing with many little story lines but im liking it