This book is like a slice of life story, but if instead of a slice it was the entire pie, and you don't really actually want that much pie, but it's a really delicious fancy pie so you're enjoying it even through all the slices, except after a few you get a bite that has something in it with a really weird taste, but the rest of it was good and everyone around you is saying it's such a great pie so you have another bite hoping it becomes yummy again, but the more you eat the more weird bites you get, until you finally finish it and think hey probably I should have stopped after the first weird bite??

Delicious ingredients in this pie: gorgeous writing, hard hitting one liners you've gotta highlight, lovely supportive relationships between women.

Weird, expired ingredients: bad (as in, disagreeable to me personally) takes on romantic relationships and adoption and motherhood and alcoholism and organ donation and and and.

So :/