The weirdest book I’ve ever read by MILES

I had to think on this one for a while, but the more time I spend away from it after finishing, the more brilliant I think this book is. Yes it is absolutely the most unhinged book I've read, but the writing is superb and July brilliantly captures life as a woman in the most extreme senses. This is not a book that will be for everyone, and I waffled back and forth a lot on whether I loved or hated it, but at the end of the day, this is one of the most unique pieces of literature I've read.

A few of my favorite lines:

“All of the hormones that made me want to seem approachable so I could breed are gone and replaced by hormones that are fiercely protective of my autonomy and freedom”

“But maybe the road split between:
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”

“If birth was being thrown energetically up into the air, we aged as we rose. At the height of our ascent we were middle-aged and then we fell for the rest of our lives, the whole second half. Falling might take just as long, but it was nothing like rising. The whole time you were rising you could not imagine what came next in your particular, unique journey; you could not see around the corner. Whereas falling ended the same way for everyone.”

“Life didn’t just get better and better. You could actually miss out on something and that was that. That was your chance and now it was over.”