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I was about to give up on this book. I’m so glad I didn’t.

I will have more to say on this incredible feminist sci-fi novel, but I will caution that it's a product of its time. It's not very intersectional, in fact it's laughable how in this society race apparently is no longer a point of discrimination. But other than that, I found the story so acute in its representation of how men treat women, and have created societies based on that mistreatment, including showing how the most inconsequential ways are in fact the most insidious.

It's very much in the tone and style known by millenials/zoomers, so it's very cheeky and funny and a product of its time, but at times I felt like it was too much of its time. It needed more depthness to well, everything, if only to better distinguish between the main character's interiority and the actual world he's navigating.

Loved the prose, really embodied the restlessness and tension felt when we struggle to break free from the rigidness of conformity.