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Spent the first five pages assuming the narrator was a hot bi woman with bangs, only to be introduced to their cock on page six, hope she was a trans girl, and disappointingly turn to the blurb and realise it was a gay guy the whole time. When will my troubles cease.

This one goes out to King's College London where I was meant to read this book on two separate occasions, and didn't at all do that. Swings and roundabouts. Cyclicality. Here I find myself, reading this damn book, that I have owned, for four years.

Love! This!

Oh Mr Richard Siken...

I can't believe I gave this book three stars back in the day. What a loser. I can already tell I was deeply wrong x

Oh Nicola... It's good to be back x

Whilst this is taking me an age to read, I would like it to be known I think Dave Tynan is a wicked genius and his truly astonishing prose has been killing me for weeks x

Andrea Long Chu you are a crazy person.

This novel is so fucking brilliant like (!!!) Isabella Hammad you did good sweetie xx

Genuinely surprised to find myself on the verge of tears only 40 pages in. Heaven help me.

This is my sixth Clarice Lispector novel and I am once again reminded of her unimaginable prose. I simply cannot fathom how a person writes like that. She is otherworldly.

"The day had been the same as every other and maybe that was where the build-up of life had come from. She had awoken full of daylight, invaded. Still in bed, she had thought about sand, sea, drinking seawater at her dead aunt's house, about feeling, above all feeling." (!!!!!)