This one is hard for me, because on paper it really seems like a book that I would like. A literary fiction novel, exploring women's relationship and sexuality just sounded really great.

However, it just didn't work for me. I was willing to let the lack of quotation marks in the first chapter go, but overall I had a hard time connecting to any of Popkey's characters. I think that this novel would have worked better as a series of short stories with different narrators, because I was left feeling as though I should understand the narrator better than I did by the end of the book. Her reflection at the end of the story left me wondering why I was supposed to care about the character and her supposed growth. Some of the stories were better than others for me, and that's why I kept going with the book. But overall, it was just not for me.

2.5 stars rounded up.