Vulgar, insightful, nauseating, brutal, tender... Anaïs Nin has long fascinated me as a person but this is my first time engaging properly with her work. It is both brash and enigmatic, and I feel lured by the siren call of her other works so that I might better understand her while also feeling repulsed and exhausted by the confronting aspects of these stories. All in all, a reading experience I cannot define (or give a star rating lol) and won't soon forget.