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Someone needs to photoshop that scene in Spongebob of Squidward in a white void with word bubbles saying "alone" surrounding him and replace the void with the Three's Company apartment.

The underlying tone of misogyny that laces the flashbacks with Stratt, bizarre interpretation of international politics, as well as the quippy humor that has become at this point exhausting even if you haven't grown a distaste for it as I have, weigh this book down heavily.

Beautiful prose blanketed in the shroud of familial trauma and emotional despondency. Rivers Solomon pierces through the veil of the tortured subconcious through the supernatural haunting of a home and the true-to-life hauntings of the self.

The obsessive name searching online in search of validation and hand-waving refusal to engage with criticism while she obliviously reinforces her critics' points is very frustrating but still manages to also be funny

The distinction between the voice of the angst of the 15 old grooming victim and the nihilistic depression of her now-adult but emotionally stagnant self is subtle yet vast. Her rose-tinted glasses slowly dismantling and how the falability of memory is manipulated by abuse pairs brilliantly with the unflinching retrospective. The scene when she first goes to his house had me feeling actively light-headed.