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“Genie's condition was called multi-infarct dementia: the brain is rattled so persistently by tiny strokes that pinholes begin to open in its surface like sinkholes in destabilized ground. Even the idea of it was dismaying, this disintegration of the one reality we assume to be the sturdiest: the city of the self, built in our minds.”

This Alaska history book is secretly just about the precarity of life😭

“the radio [reports] that night appeared to help people in Anchorage find the contours of this sinister abstraction they were living through - and to locate their places in it. For nearly five minutes, the earthquake had overpowered everyone. But now so many stories… described people switching back on and spontaneously helping one another - reclaiming their roles, collectively, as protagonists in the disaster.”

Started out different than I thought, but by chapter 2 I was reading really fast as it felt like the narrative was going at the speed of the quake!

What the fuck is up with this third-person author insertion. This book has ended up reading like the author decided to write about a woman for feminism brownie points

No way is the fucking author self inserting himself into his own book right now

Writing style reads as if the author took writing classes from that guy starring in those fucking My Pillow commercials