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40% complete! people like books has read 12 of 30 books.

@astralstreeting yeah, I've been recommended him a few times, I'm very stoked to be reading this finally. I'm only ~70 pages in but I already get the feeling like it's gonna be incredible (albeit challenging)

Guadalupe Nettel, Rosalind Harvey: Still Born (2022, Fitzcarraldo Editions)

"Two best friends share an aversion to 'the human shackles' of motherhood, only to discover …

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Really simple prose and a kind of overdone premise made me feel like I knew what I was getting into, but the story sucked me in really quickly and I ended up finishing it in one sitting. Really appreciated the steady, almost omnicient presence of the narrator through lots of turmoil in the lives of the women around her.