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This book is being called the next Gone Girl, and while I didn't find it as elegantly executed as Flynn's book, it was a compelling, twisty read.

I have lots of guesses, but no confident ones.

Pretty darn page-turnery and mysterious!

Jumping on the bandwagon, and I'm impressed so far!

Thoroughly enjoying this.

I had a lot of trouble with this book, but I'm looking forward to discussing it at FOGcon.

Parts of this book I like quite a bit, others I don't really understand.

Russ is this year's FOGcon honored ghost. Intriguing start to the story!

Very absorbing, very wonderfully written.

I don't understand this book, but the writing is lovely and there are many appealing things about it.

Getting very into this story!

Very strange book in which the characters are being forced inside of stories they're creating? Maybe? Still not really sure what it's all about.

Only just started, but so far, so good.

Fascinating and strange. Has the same quality I found in BOY, SNOW, BIRD, that I still don't have a sense what kind of story this is.

Great, unusual family story.

A lot going on in this collection, and I think I better grasped the prose parts than the more poetic parts, but I'm very glad I read it all.

Very impressed by the way this is such a character-focused book, with plot events that are often fairly mundane, and yet the story is gripping and full of mystery.

"As usual, they started [the AIDS coverage] out with footage of some kind of sweaty nightclub in the city with a bunch of gay men dancing around in stupid leather outfits. I couldn't even begin to imagine Finn dancing the night away like some kind of half-dressed cowboy. It would have been nice if for once they showed some guys sitting in their living rooms drinking tea and talking about art or movies or something."

Lovely and sad.

Powerful and thought-provoking.

Been meaning to read this for a while. Great main character and engrossing story so far.

So engrossed in the world of this book!

This is so great.

I don't feel like the ideal audience for this story, but it's kind of cool, and I definitely support a Muslim-American superhero!

"There was a red button on the wall labeled EMERGENCY, but no button labeled BEWILDERMENT." Loving the character voice and the writing.

I've been really looking forward to this book, and it's off to a great start!

"As I've thought about time in fiction for this essay, it's struck me that storytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence."

A fascinating little book!

Really enjoying this, and have no idea where it's going!

I've had this collection for a while, and I recently read one of her stories online and was inspired to finally pick up the book.