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Had to put the book down bc I felt TOO connected to Lori’s experience and it was a testament to how vividly and viscerally Lispector renders human emotion. Got back into it and the prose just swept me away. This book is tender in that it makes me feel like a still-raw wound. It also made me feel like foam at the crest of a wave catching the light b4 melting into the tide and reforming, always in tune w/ the moon.