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The moment Mary was mentioned. I knew we were in for a real baby.

When I heard Nancy Wu begin reading I straight up fist pumped in my car.

CLEMENTINE DOESNT KNOW ABOUT THE OCEAN????

Scariest part of the book.

Really enjoying so far. Absolutely hate natalie, which is exactly the point. She’s even more vile than expected. I love it.

JEEEEEESUS

The second vignette even stronger than the first. Dangerously narcissistic loneliness. Truly impending dread in every page turn. Bile rising self hate and reflection in one step. While none of us are Alison, we all have seen Alison in the reflection of the shower door closing too quickly.

First part down. Really loving the prose, very curious about the progression of the remaining parts

“You murdered him”

No like it’s cool I just didn’t expect it to be clones

A bit of a slow start. I don’t know if I’m just out of my art game, but I am finding the art descriptors pretentious, but in a way that I feel Huang might be commenting on or exaggerating for the sake of characterization. Not sure yet. Still early days babes. Loving the line-level artistry, so many passages I just adore.

“As we drove away from the car-wash, the rollers dripped silently in the darkness. Around the car an immense pool of white bubbles subsided into the wet concrete.” AFTER ALL THAT. Bro…BRO. Maybe the best chapter yet. Somehow, with the INTENSE and pervasive eroticism of this novel, this somehow feels like the first true “sex scene”. I don’t know how that’s possible.

“This small space was crowded with angular control surfaces and rounded sections of human bodies interacting in unfamiliar junctions, like the first act of homosexual intercourse inside an Apollo capsule.”

Honestly gas.

This book feels like skipping. Not in subject matter, in prose. The constant set up and knock down of reference and joke and puzzle is so consistently gratifying. The Wax Seal/Whacked Seal chapter is a personal favorite. Just live it