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This book is helping confirm my strong believe that our American patriarchal society is detrimental to the wellbeing of both women and men.

He killed Jude.

Reading the last 5 pages was very hard and I’m shaking thinking about Jude’s terrible childhood.

It’s hard to put this book down, even to go use the restroom. Also, Malcolm reminds me of myself, living with my parents as an adult.

“Chronic road rage can actually alter the shape of the amygdalae, the brain’s almond-shaped fear centers, and kill cells in the hippocampus” am I surprised? The answer is no.