Well, the title prepares you but Francine truly does crash and burn in the most spectacular of ways.  In her defense, she is mourning the death of her mother, confronting the lasting impact of childhood trauma, and navigating toxic and codependent relationships. She is on a hard and messy journey. The entire time I was thinking, “Girl, what are you doing?” and anxiously waiting for her to get into therapy, make some positive changes and turn it all around. She had no place to go but up. While the plot did go a bit too off the rails for me, I enjoyed the way her relationship develops with Davie, a little boy on the spectrum who enters her life when she is at rock bottom. He is what made this story endearing and worth the read.