Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster | Summit Books for gifting me a digital ARC of the new novel by Avni Doshi. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4.25 stars!
A husband tells his wife that he is leaving, that he was never happy. A wife is left behind in their house with their two children. She also has a complicated relationship with her family. What happens to her next?
Told from the POV of an unnamed narrator, the wife, this is the story of a marriage gone wrong. It's the story of that woman's fight to make a new life for herself and her children, taking back control that she gave to her husband and earlier, to her parents. I loved the analogy of the cicadas' life cycle as compared to her becoming a new version of herself. There's lots of info about astrology too and how people can let predictions control their lives. It was a very reflective book, and I felt like I was inside the narrator's brain as she contemplates her life.
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