Megan Power

"I'm just telling you, human to human, that life is complicated and fat people are trying to live."

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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

"...only 18.2 percent resulted in a live birth. Regardless the age of the patient, regardless the exact variant of treatment, most cycles failed...It's an industry predicated on failure."

Avalanche Julia Leigh W.W. Norton

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Avalanche by Julia Leigh

"My love for Agnes had changed, and was different now from anything I'd experienced before...For the first time in my life, I had the sensation that something outside me, something strange and incomprehensible, was entering me."

Agnes OtherPress Peter Stamm

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Agnes by Peter Stamm

"Nothing was normal here and that I liked. Here, in this ravaged landscape, I didn't have to shrink from everyday details that were no longer ours. The shop we bought hot bread from, a blue car, a basketball. My surroundings were as deformed as I was. I belonged here."

Penguin RandomHouse Canada Sonali Deraniyagala

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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

"The philosopher Julian Baggini wrote that ''I' is a verb masquerading as a noun.'"

Grayson Perry The Descent of Man PenguinRandomHouse

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The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

"Siblings are the first people we love irrationally. Their faces and behaviors are like funhouse-mirror versions of our own, formed into different configurations of the same genetic material, but eerily similar..."

Alana Massey All the Lives I Want Hachette

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All the Lives I Want by Alana Massey

"It was, and is, above all about the attempt to make space for new pleasure in one's life...as a gesture of faith in the possibility..."

Eaten Back to Life Invisible Publishing Jonah Campbell

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Eaten Back to Life by Jonah Campbell

"She told us to keep our sentences simple, and I didn't quite obey. But why write 'I went to the store with a friend' when, without relying on the dictionary, I can say 'I visited the slaughterhouse with my godfather and a small monkey'?"

David Sedaris Little Brown Theft by Finding

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Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris

"For example: 'I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain.' Why would a desert miss the rain? Why wasn't it okay for a desert to be a desert, why couldn't anything just be the way it was, why did it always have to be missing something?"

Elif Bautman PenguinRandomHouse The Idiot

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The Idiot by Elif Bautman

"'How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?'"

A Field Guide to Getting Lost Penguin Rebecca Solnit

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