I love when an author can weave their narrative with equal parts humor, wit, and vulnerability. O’Connell uses equal parts of all three and makes you laugh out loud one minute, contemplate the next, and tear up. The timeliness of my reading this book and the way I needed to read some of these words is eerie. The idea that some relationships allow us to escape our bodies and some relationships allow us to inhabit our bodies is one I am using as a lens to evaluate my past and I’ll take it with me to parse through what the future has in store. A truly remarkable read.