![]() ![]() Fittingly, three of the four sections of the book are named after the women in these relationships: Selah, Yara and Odalys.Įach woman our narrator has dated is fascinating in her own way, but for me, the more interesting aspect of these chapters is the way in which the narrator acts within these relationships and the ways in which the narrator uses the women as either a muse or an anti-muse for the thesis. Our narrator tells the timeline of their attempts to complete the thesis through the lens of the major relationships that consumed them throughout the decade. They’re brilliant, funny, slightly narcissistic and deeply melancholic. Our narrator is an unnamed and ungendered (more on that later) late 30s PhD student who has spent at least a decade toiling away on their ambitious and amorphous thesis. ![]() It’s a book you have to be tuned into to enjoy. It’s not a beach read, nor a curl-up-on-a-rainy-day read. I really liked this book, when I was in the right headspace for it. Who has quarantine made me become? That’s such a trite thing to say. I was about to start this review with the line, “I really enjoyed this novel, but I’ll warn: it’s not for everyone.” Ugh. ![]()
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