This book was a surprise. I went into it expecting to enjoy it, but I didn't expect it to be SO engaging and impressive. Hart has written "the woman" and her experience with shame remarkably well - so well that I often had to put the book down just to take a deep breath to center myself. This book is so incredibly human, and overall just really good.

I was looking for a great womens fiction book- not a thriller or mystery but something with an eerie feel- and this was it, It reminded me of Lisa Taddeo's "Three Women." Erotic, tense, and unique.

This was such an exquisite read — the use of time movements in the narrative, the unpacking of shame in the narrator (and those she is in relationships with), the way “the woman” remains unnamed throughout… it was all perfection!

This is a story you’ll experience with the narrator, it’s sensual but never gratuitous (though the intimacy is written beautifully!), and reads less a discovery of self identity and more as a coming to peace with a sense of self, a state of self. I can’t recommend this enough!

Thanks to Riverhead for an early read via netgalley.