This one snuck up on me, as a lot of books do. I went into it knowing some vague things about it, mostly that it was "weird girl lit" and something about it having a toxic roommate situation in it, but forgot the rest by the time I read it, and I'm so glad. This one hit me like a ton of bricks for how weirdly poetic parts were for being so UTTERLY bizarre. If you want the full experience I highly recommend listening to the audiobook narrated by the author because hearing the opening lines

When I stopped at red lights, I kept my eyes mysteriously forward. Who is she? people might have been wondering. Who is that middle-aged woman in the blue Honda? I strolled through the parking garage and into the elevator, pressing 12 with a casual, fun-loving finger. The kind of finger that was up for anything. In her voice???? ICONIC.

This girl is like... Tina Belcher energy in her delivery. Now at it's core this is a lot about a woman who is a horrible people pleaser. She is obviously not emotionally mature at ALL, I mean I actually kept forgetting that she was middle-aged because she is so weird and immature and people-pleasing, she is a goddamn MESS of a human, but that isn't a fault of writing, it is just who she is. She gets into the WORST situations because of her inability to stand up for herself. She has a weird... kismet type thing going on with this strange belief that she has a soulmate that inhabits different bodies and different times, usually babies. I can not explain this. It is a recurring theme that is bizarre but also kind of... sweet at times. She gets into a weird.... I don't even know what to call her roommate situation.

This story genuinely goes in so many directions I did not expect, the writing is unlike anything else I've read before, I sent whole segments to my group chat regularly because I was so flabberghasted by it. It's WEIRD. And UNCOMFORTABLE. Everyone in the entire book kind of really sucks and are weird as hell. I'm rereading the quotes I saved from it to refresh my memory and am laughing all over again at the utterly bizarre style of writing. I'm sure a lot of people would hate it but I found it soooooooooo delightful, and it made the oddly profound moments stick out even more. I instantly put a hold on her other books when I finished this one.

Some day when I have some more books to put into it,I'm making a list of "Unwell girls assigning way too much meaning to everything" and this will be in here. My favorite genre.