Status Updates From Clam Down: A Metamorphosis

I cannot wait for this one! Great way to kick off 2026 with a transformation — into a clam.

Switched my divorce memoir from "You Could Make This Place Beautiful" to this one. Clam on

Ugh, the dad is the literal manifestation of “men need to go to therapy instead of dumping their unresolved trauma on their wife and kids.”

Methinks that this clam metaphor has gone on for too long.

Wah, that scene with her Taiwanese mother was so triggering.

Hmmm, not sure how I feel about the introduction of the narrator’s father’s first-person chapters. Think they would’ve been better with a different audiobook narrator to distinguish them more from her perspectives.

Quite charmed by the way in which this third-person narrator unearths all the mundane absurdities of our daily lives.