leah’s Reviews > Shark Heart > Status Update

“And if Margaret wasn’t talking, she was singing, and to Lewis’s complete vexation, the only songs in her repertoire were snippets of three hits from the early 2000s (“Bootylicious, “Get Ur Freak On,” and “Hot in Herre”), as well as Avril Lavigne’s first two albums, which she knew by heart.”

“…the theater hums with presence as everyone in the audience and cast alike remembers that joy and grief are human birthrights, but mostly, being alive is everything in between.”

there are some chunks of prose that don’t really make sense to me or hit very hard, but then there’s just something really beautiful like this