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Our narrator in this book is Quincy Carpenter. Quincy is 10 years out from one of the most traumatic experiences someone could have — she is the only survivor of an attack that killed her college friend group. She can’t remember most of it, but she’s also never dealt with it with anything more than Xanax and grape soda. This makes her the character most
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“And look how you got here. ‘All rising to great places is by a winding stair.’ Have you ever heard that?” Referring to Amber’s journey as a winding stair is a bit of an understatement. This nearly 1000 page book covers approximately 10 years of her life, and yet I feel like it wasn’t enough. Through her multiple marriages, multiple children, and multiple sexual partners,
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I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this read! I watched the movie when it first came out on Netflix, so I was already familiar with the story. I thought this would make the read feel rote and unsurprising. But instead, I was sucked in and engaged, despite knowing where they were going on the river and what would happen when they got there.
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I suspect that reading this book now hits a lot differently than reading it when it first came out. I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. Julia and her family are enjoying a normal Saturday when strange news starts being reported. After a few days, the “what”
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