Wow, I loved this! I find her writing fascinating. She world builds in a way I find immensely appealing, woven in, like stream of consciousness to characters' daily lives. There is no "conflict" driving the plot other than just being human in a world that has been shattered by the capitalist trajectory we're on.

Is this a post-apocalyptic story? Is it a mid-apocalypse story? I'm not sure it matters - the world has been, IS, shattering as we speak. What would it be like to have a narrator a century old still spry, living their life, raising a child (their great-grandchild) with love and awareness of the past, yet not caught up in mourning about their present. It just is, the way our lives now are what is. We know our context but we're not constantly talking about it, we're adapting to it. We have memories but we don't live our lives stuck in what's lost (I hope) rather we think about what's for dinner, how to get to work, laundry, grocery shopping, chatting with the neighbors, how's the kiddo doing at school? These mundane things are a lot less mundane to read in a vastly changed world, but I loved that this was a book driven by love and kindness (and not in a fierce "against all odds" US style way).