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Wow. Could not put this down. One of the most gut-wrenching, brutal, beautiful books I have ever read.
Roxane Gay is an addictive writer. She also clearly understands trauma and when she writes about it, it reads like it's happening in real time. But I would like to read a version of this novel where she understands recovery as well as she does trauma. She foreshadows that the main character's recovery is long and difficult and life-changing, but she does not deal with the reality that the process of recovery requires a different kind of fight than the fight to survive. But overall, I recommend t
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