A really in-depth exploration of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship, and a book where all the characters are awful in different ways (unless that’s just how the narrator wants you to see them…). It took me a while to get into this book, but the final climactic chapter was so worth it. The whole book as this claustrophobic feeling of being trapped in an uncomfortable situation, and not many books have made me feel so much dislike and sympathy for the characters and the same time. 

It took me a while to get into it, but I ended up loving this book. The toxic relationship of the main character with her mother, and as a result with herself and everyone else around her, is tragic yet somehow relatable. The writing feels labored at times (the references to science and medicine felt mostly unnecessary and out of place), but there are moments of stark and brutal honesty, particularly in the last third of the book.

The last chapter was rattling, and I absolutely loved it, though I'm sorry the book ended where it did - I would have loved to see more of the MC as a mother.