whenever i’ve described this book to someone they say “oh that’s a very rachel book” and they are correct. this is a sci-fi prison abolition dream sequence giant love story and i think it has changed me forever. the first section of the book is so crowded, so crammed, so claustrophobic, i didn’t think i could push through the discomfort. i’m so glad i did for what was waiting beyond, and for the greater appreciation i now have for the skill it takes to create art like this. i don’t know how pip can write in a way that is so dreamlike and yet so solid and so grounded, so still and yet so alive.