A fast and highly enjoyable read. I imagine this book gets shelved along side Roxane Gay's "Bad Feminist", with which it pairs well. Like that collection, West's book contains sections which can stand alone as individual essays, but which also build on each other to tell a partial story of the author's life. I was a little less interested in the first four chapters about her life before college, which felt less fully realized than the later pieces. But from page 5o onwards I was absolutely hooked and I read nearly the whole rest of the book in one sitting. West is a hell of a writer, and she has had some experiences which would have scarred me for life. Just reading about them made my hair stand on end. I left the book with a feeling of deep admiration, and I plan to read more of her work in the future.