Jennifer Mejia’s Reviews > Difficult Women > Status Update

that was a devastating chapter. I want to understand where the self hatred and judgement began if a white man was interested in a black woman. Who and what caused people to think that being white was a superiority. He took the most vulnerable part of them and acted like it was for him to take. It’s pure evil. Also, why was he sexualizing the women so much.

The second part of the chapter got a little bit interesting. I’m curious to know the book will end. Will all of these short stories eventually come together? I have moments where I’m locked in and other moments where I have completely drifted apart from the story.

I didn’t finish this chapter but from what I understand it’s a series of didn’t addresses and families that all live in Florida. Each story within the chapter begins with an address. The one I just read of the couple that’s happy they aren’t fat was a little disturbing. I can’t really explain it but that gave me the ick.

Not a huge fan of this chapter, not because I didn’t think it was interesting but it just didn’t call to me. As I read I wanted the chapter to be over, I was in the mood to read so it wasn’t that. I think I wasn’t invested because the other chapters were more of short stories. This was describing a certain kind of woman. A mother, a crazy woman, a frigid woman.. but I didn’t really understand the point.

Each chapter is quite intense. This one was about a woman that is married to a twin, but they sometimes switch. She can tell when they switch and she is in love with the twin that she’s actually not married to. He’s kind and gentle with her. Unlike her husband who abuses her mentally and physically just like his father did to their mother. In the end she becomes pregnant twins.

I just figured out that each chapter is a different fictional story. this chapter was quite sad, water stain following her everywhere she went. Does the water represent the damage we carry with us as we go about our lives? The trauma we may carry?