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a great collection of essays, even if they didn't always feel the most cohesive and though there weren't any singular standout stories.
I'm sad about it but this book just didn't work for me. I LOVED the first ~100 pages but then it just lost me. I wish it had been more of a memoir, but in many moments it felt like something I would have been assigned in grad school - which isn't necessarily a negative, but it's a specific kind of reading. I really disliked the section focused on Erin and Helen, I felt like it lost a lot of momentum picked up in the first half of the book, and I just generally have a very limited appetite for thinking about the political climate of 2016 - it's still too charged for me. Also a lot of art-specific stuff that went over my head.
Stuff I personally would have liked to pre-read in order to best digest this book: Jhumpa Lahiri, Ocean Vuong, Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Catcher in the Rye, Wordsworth, and the Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom