Sometimes the reason everyone calls a book One Of The Best Books Of The Year is because it is.

Everyone gives it a five star rating because it's five star level. Everyone calls it buzzed-about because it's buzz-worthy. Everyone calls it the best of the genre in recent memory because that's obvious. (Celebrity memoir...not as competitive, but still.)

You'd think that'd always be the case, and you'd be wrong, but it doesn't matter because only this book does.

And on this book...the general populace is correct on all counts.

This is a searing, unique, gorgeously devastating, sometimes funny book that made me very hungry and very sad.

It made me want to listen to more Japanese Breakfast music and also regret the time she did a free show at my college and I had to miss it because I was taking a three-hour night class with no absences permitted.

I hope she keeps writing. But next time I will be prepared with a food-delivery app open and a big ass box of tissues.

Bottom line: I love a pleasant surprise. No comment on the fact that when everyone loves a book and I do too, that counts as a surprise.

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pre-review

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review to come / 5 stars

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trying to get a catharsis-cry out of this