This first chapter did not pull me in at all. And I reread it because it's been months and it still didn't pull me in at all.
Disappoint Me (2025)
You can fall in love with an outline, you can even make a home with one, but there will come a time where you can’t deny the bones their flesh. A person is no fewer than two things. Thirty years old with a lifetime of dysphoria and irritating exes rattling around in her head, Max is plagued by a deep dissatisfaction. Shouldn’t these be the best years of her life? Why doesn’t it feel that way? After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Max thinks she’s found the answer in Vincent. While his corporate colleagues, trad friends, and Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman, he cares for Max in a way she’d always dismissed as a foolish fantasy. But he is also carrying baggage of his own. When the fall-out of a decades-old entanglement resurfaces, Max must decide what forgiveness really means. Can we be more than our worst mistakes? Is it possible to make peace with the past?
But like the 1950s chapters are so boring to me and they're so long. Like why are each one of those chapters like 15 to 20 pages? It's just like watching paint dry for me.
I found this super compelling I found it really smart and thoughtful and at the end when kind of everything comes to a head I really felt for Max that like I didn't know what decision I'd make if I was her
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