I don't even know where to begin with this book, but I can tell you now that it will be listed on my best books of the year. It also is my first solid book club selection, even knowing that it will be a polarizing book that people will love or they will hate.

The premise for this book is what makes this book so unique. Following a very traumatic event, Bonnie Lincoln desires more than anything to escape the reality of her life. She's found that escape in the nostalgic glow of a 70s sticom called Three's Company.

When she wins the lottery, Bonnie decides to spend her earnings replicating the exact set of the show down to the smallest detail to recreate the show as her lived experience, in isolation, living each day just as the characters.

The reader follows along as Bonnie embodies each of these characters down to their commute, work, clothing, and conversation until she has done all she can to replicate that experience.

The problem is when reality creeps in and disrupts Bonnie's perfectly sitcom-manufactured world. Are these threats real or are they perceived? Are these people she's created real or perceived? What happened to Bonnie to fracture her mentality and what happens if someone disrupts the order in her sitcom world.

Why do I think you will love it? It is symbolic of everything we do to escape our own reality, just on a grander scale. It asks us to examine what happens when we don't process trauma. It is an immersive unique experience that I can only liken to Wandavision.

Why do I think you might hate it? Bonnie is unlikable and the evolution just isn't there. Bonnie can't evolve and that could turn people off. It is VERY weird and strange.

It won't be for every reader, but it will be for a lot of you that don't mind being transported even if that journey doesn't go into those happily ever after places that we desire...just like sitcoms.

Trigger warnings: rape, sexual trauma, mental illness

One's Company

Ashley Hutson