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Hate hate the phrase ‘mother wound’ but here we are anyway. The ‘This American Life’ episode with Loftus and Nicole is never far from my mind so a character portrait has answered many questions (and raised a few more).

What a tragedy that this is Larsen 2/2

Worried the first few pages the regressive 90s racial politics would be hard to shake, instead this is so topical i feel like it sought me out for this particular moment. Not an annotator but i need a physical copy to tear up.

Even precocious children have their limits

“Mrs Roy taught me to be free then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became”

The introductory chapter hit me over the head - and she’s still going!

I fear I may have done too much anticipatory hyping…like why are we barely passing the Bechdel?

Going to start using “it does not signify” in my day to day

This is the very best of narrative nonfiction - such vivid prose and such meticulously detailed.