It was, in part, a longing…to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved.1
It seemed to be her destiny to live among men whose solutions were invariably more complicated or extreme than the problems they were intended to solve.2
I probably shouldn’t admit how far I got into this beautiful, heart-wrenching masterpiece before I finally realized it was never gonna turn into an urban fantasy about a guy with a golem sidekick.
Anyway, I love it.