Sometimes when I use a hair clip I push it too close to my skin and the claw scrapes against my scalp, pulling my hair too taut from my temples, but even though it hurts that's how I know it's in the right place, that it's going to stay put. Reading this book felt like that: the raw scrape of a story that's going to stick with me.

"I want to be able to feel this way all the time. To be able to laugh about all the things that have happened to me, baggage and all, light and dark. To own it handily enough so that it could be funny and horrifying at once."