I feel like the author was writing an impactful and deeply emotional story, but I couldn’t receive or connect with the narrative. I can see how the use of disjointed sentences could represent the nuances in a stream of consciousness, but reading it was getting exhausting to try to make sense of it all.

 The subject matter focused on the trauma, despair, and suffering of the protagonist’s narration and you can sense the attempt of delivering a sense of visceral intimacy, but the writing didn’t do that for me. Instead, I felt the characters to be irritating, unlikeable, and cruel more often than not. The narration felt forced, sharp, repetitive, and detached. Maybe I wasn’t the intended audience for this book, but I read it because it was recommended to me by a bookseller on one of my vacation trips. All that to say, I didn’t enjoy this read but hope others enjoy it more than myself if this sounds like their cup of tea ☕️