Status Updates From If She Were Dead

"She was like a doll that wets or cries 'Mama': the disposable Amelie. You can brush her hair, take off her little outfits, twist her limbs this way and that, and then, if you like, you can just toss her away. Bye-bye, Disposable Amelie. Because there's always a bright new toy waiting on the shelf." This is the first decent analogy I've read throughout the book even though it had me singing Barbie Girl in my head.

"[...] And she didn't know why she said it, why there was something problematic in taking Ben's son from point A to point B, why he was any different than his sister. Somewhere in the crevices of the equation, in the esoteric angles of its logic, lay some further problem, something unclear that might get in the way, throw off the equation, skew the result." See what I mean? The author constantly does this!!!!

“She stopped this line of thinking immediately, for by the end of the hour she would have come to despise the ugly witless gnome that her lover had become in her estimation.” Like this book is giving me tonal whiplash because why is it modern day and then turns medieval like this???

Part of me does feel like maybe her daughter’s new man is also Ben but part of me just feels like maybe that’s me hoping because that would be interesting and the book is so fucking boring lol