pedestrienne

Wow, this book is a mess. As an example, there are at least two conversations between the 3 main characters where the man and the younger sister insist that autistic children should just die because they are unfit for society (they also equate being autistic to being mentally disabled, which is a whole other thing) and the only counterargument the older sister has to offer is "well I am not sure but I guess we should agree to differ". Not to mention the transphobia, homophobia and fatphobia. But after finishing the book and looking up the backstory of the author, I gained a whole other reading of this book, which is that Bradley seemed to have been working through her own gross life story - Leslie, the older sister, spends all her time rationalizing away the weird and terrible actions of her new beau because she loves him. Actions such as: murder. So while I'm kind of sad I wasted my time on this, I now know more about this corner of literary history.