I really enjoyed this. I loved following Fiona and Jane’s friendship throughout time and space—I don’t think I’ve ever read a collection of interconnected stories before. Their closeness reminded me of the sisters in Mary H.K. Choi’s Yolk, which I also loved. I will say that the anti-fatness threaded throughout rubbed me the wrong way and

I thought the ending was a bit corny and overdone; this book felt so original to me, except those last couple pages.

I feel like Jean Chen Ho really took advantage of the richness of friendship in this book, and I hope that more authors do the same.