Not a want in the world and a successful husband to go along with it. Angela is thriving. Until she makes comments. Tells her husband what she REALLY wants. Things start to fall apart, and quickly. Angela falls into a universe she never knew existed. She's scared, uncomfortable, confused. Is this what she wants? Should she fight to get things back to how they were or let her new reality swallow her up, turning her into something she never knew she could be..?

Waif outlines Angela's collective experiences with men in a heartbreakingly horrific manner through stunning prose. There are multiple highlight-able passages that shed light on the realities of a woman living in a world built for men: constant objectification, abuse, rape.

Waif took me by surprise. I thought I was going to fall into a story about a woman's dedication to man. Initially, the center of Angela's universe was men. Every thought, idea, or desire expressed was androcentric. Altering goals, aspirations, physical features, HERSELF in order to become the man's set idea of woman. Albeit unconventional, Angela is able to take control of her life in a way that she never dreamed of doing a few short weeks before. She's able to reconnect with a part of herself she thought she lost, "wasn't her", had buried, burned, forgotten, gotten