This one got in my head. The first half of the book made me uncomfortable, cringe, and gag at how realistic it was, but also painful and sad. At one point I said the book should’ve been called ‘Obsession’ but it made sense, as rejection was the cause of people’s decisions going forward. The narrators were great but I definitely missed some of the smaller details that made an impact on how I moved through the collection. I didn’t expect the characters to connect and interact across stories and that was intriguing. 

That penultimate story did it for me though. It was long and it was losing me, up until we got to the end. Then I was mindblown. So interesting that the story I was least engaged with ended up making me want to own a physical copy of this book. It was trippy and made me deep what was fiction and not. The most interesting thing to me was the idea of being so detached from oneself and rejecting identity to the point of finding a way to be thousands of people with different lives, goals, and backgrounds. To have been planning it for years like some grand showcase. It reminded me of Now You See Me. It was genius really and inspiring from a writer’s perspective.