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Another book that really underwhelmed me. I swear I still read books I like!! This is written in a similar vein as Jenny Offill or Rachel Cusk. The narrator explores the one-two punch of the end of her marriage and a breast cancer diagnosis. In a book where the MC experiences such terrible things, I would expect to feel sympathy, but she reads so detached from her own feelings and situation, I felt nothing. That was disappointing.

An interesting take on the divorce novel. Here, a woman learns her husband has been having an affair (and is leaving her) immediately before learning she has breast cancer. So, she names her tumor after the other woman, as you do. It‘s threaded with humor and abounding with metaphors. I liked but didn‘t love it.

This style of writing didn‘t quite work for me. The nameless MC goes through a lot but seemed emotionally detached from the experiences she recounts- blindsided by infidelity, cancer. Thank god for best friends🥰 …My sincere wish for anyone facing divorce is they are no longer in love with their spouse.

I read this book in one sitting and absolutely loved it. About a marriage falling apart and a cancer diagnosis. Sounds like too much, but this story is told with tenderness and humor. It will stay with me for a long time.

I‘m not sure if I was in a weird headspace (again) whilst reading this. I liked it, but it‘s very much an “inside the main character‘s head” book and luckily, I liked the main character a lot (we never learn her name). I enjoyed the interspersed stories from Chinese myth and would‘ve liked more of that. I just felt a bit removed from it - again, weird headspace 🤪🤦‍♀️

ARC pub date July 22

Our MC is having a rough time. Her husband has been having an affair, and has left her for the mistress a woman named Maggie. And now the MC gets diagnosed with breast cancer, and she decides to name her tumor after her husband's mistress
This is not really humorous (even from a dark humor POV) but it is very human. I really love how the MC starts to reevaluate everything, to start to see herself and her husband in new ways👇

My #botm choices! I thought about skipping, but the comparisons to Offill sold me on Maggie. The Compound looks fun, and I thought I‘d give Paradise a shot, too.

Starting this ARC with a US release date of 22 July

A woman goes to dinner with her husband, and finds out he is having an affair. Soon after she is told she has a tumor. She names the tumor Maggie - her husband's mistress' name.

From GR: "she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation."

It is supposed to have a lot of Chinese mythology (told by narrator to the narrators children)