I read this book blindly without even planning to. I just picked it up, read the first short story, bawled my eyes out, and tried not to sob so loudly in my favorite cafe. In the end, I have to go out and call my partner in order to calm down because it hit too close to home.

"What a comforting thought that we are on the same gigantic spaceship, sailing along the orbit of waiting."

I don't even know how to articulate everything I want to say! This book is so expansive, so wise, so heartbreaking, so hopeful, it's beautiful. I've never overidentified with a book more than this one, and I can now declare that this is my favorite book this year! It's uncanny because it felt like this book distilled every fear I have in my relationship and translated it into sci-fi. The yearning, the absence, the fear of the "orbit of waiting".

I don't know how to properly justify my love for this book because it's so personal for me. I'll have to rewrite this once I sort out my thoughts.