This book was well-researched, but that's all it was: research. With one primary personal story occasionally harkened back to. I kept reading—forcing myself to keep reading—because I was waiting for the author to start to bring it all together, synthesize the research they were presenting, draw some conclusions or ask big questions that make the reader think. It also was in dire need of an editor, with many moments where the wrong word or tense of word was used. I really really wanted to love this book. Goodness. I tried. And I do appreciate the sheer amount of research that went into it. But I am not picking up a book like this to read regurgitated research. I'm picking it up to be challenged to think in different ways. Maybe I just was already familiar with all of the themes of the research, so nothing was new, insightful, or felt challenging? I'm not sure. But yeah. It was a miss for me.