was it a perfect portrait of the loneliness and despair of a queer woman not over her breakup with a beautiful but ephemeral woman, in a relationship with another woman she despised but also couldn't stop committing to long terms plans/having sex with, the unresolved childhood trauma of an absent father and the abandonment of a mother, and the banalities and stress of owing her drug dealer money she doesn't have while working as a dishwasher at an upscale London restaurant and bar with a boss who calls her "Puppy"? YES!!!!! I adored how this novel, following the blueprint of My Year Of Rest and Relaxation (sorry, I know, an overused comp title for sure), gives us a glimpse into the psyche of a highly disturbed, deranged, and unlikeable main character, a young woman on the run from her feelings, constantly chasing what has already been lost while stewing in her unresolved past.
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