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A common personality feature that people attribute to themselves is that they live in their head. The protagonist in this novel is the extreme of a person living in their head. Mary is solitary and thinks about every detail of her life, day by day. Her only friend, Chandra, helps her out and seems to be her alter ego with bold moves. Mary fled her life with a religious, cultist father and lived for her later school years with her aunt, Merle. She then went to college where she roomed with Chandra and they set out to live life together.

The significant aspect of this novel is the skill of the writer. It is my first Catherine Lacey novel and I'm sure I will go back and read her first one. Lacey's writing flows and catches brilliant aspects of life and the characters that populate it. This was an outstanding novel for me so far this year.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.