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"I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe."
"And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk."
"It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in."

I finished this book while in a long airport security line and I was never aware that I wasn't Eva and visiting my horrible son in prison. I'm still absorbing this novel, and its intoxicating writing style, but I still say this: this book made me feel not alone.

I finished this book while in a long airport security line and I was never aware that I wasn't Eva and visiting my horrible son in prison. I'm still absorbing this novel, and its intoxicating writing style, but I still say this: this book made me feel not alone.

I cannot put this down!