Alli Baker’s Reviews > Remarkably Bright Creatures > Status Update

of these things had been stored away for her to pass along someday, relics to be carried up the branches of the family tree. But the family tree stopped growing long ago, its canopy thinned and frayed, not a single sap springing from the old rotting trunk. Some trees aren't meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.

“Is this what passes for a pickup line in your thirties? Complaining about back pain?”

“Thumping bass pulses from the kitchen, some song Cameron has heard a million times but couldn't name. Is this part of being in your thirties? Out of touch with the music kids like?”