Beecher's memoir is structured around these points of shock in her own life, and for the most part the experiences she relates are recognisable, even ordinary: being bullied at school, brushes with binge drinking and bulimia, various heartbreaks, a breakdown, a parent's illness, the loneliness of leaving family and friends to move continents.
Her lives are punctured by moments of impossibility when the future unlatches from the present and a gap opens, which we must find a way to step over, she writes.
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