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Buddy making Joan’s suicide and Esther’s mental health about him is just so on brand for his character

Buddy making Joan’s suicide and Esther’s mental health about him is just so on brand for his character

Buddy making Joan’s suicide and Esther’s mental health about him is just so on brand for his character

Buddy making Joan’s suicide and Esther’s mental health about him is just so on brand for his character

Joan giving Esther newspaper clippings detailing her attempt to kill herself and telling her to put them in a scrapbook is sending me

I’m obsessed with Joan

“Out of doors” instead of outdoors will now be a part of my vocabulary

I’m obsessed with this book so far. Im listening to the audiobook narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal and I was skeptical of her at first but I really love her voice for this character.

Esther is amazing. She’s so relatable. I love how observant she is.

“I’d discovered after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use that if you do something incorrect at a table with a certain arrogance as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think your bad mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.”