Hugo/Nebula reading 2020.
Alas, I seem to have forgotten to add a shelf for "well it was speculative when it was WRITTEN" for categorizing purposes.
I really meant to read this when it came out. I'm a bit sad I didn't since it reads so differently during a global pandemic rather than afterwards. And, of course, the idea that the least realistic part of the book is the bit where people actually do what they're told to try to stop infections...
Although the actual world that Pinsker created, with its predatory capitalism and art as movement and the way that fear becomes normalized in parenting is, honestly, a gut punch of the highest and best order.

My biggest complaint is that it uses one of my least favorite tropes, which is the part where the sympathetic character--wittingly or unwittingly--cruelly betrays someone else because, oh, so many reasons. And Rosemary learns from that, but it's a story that is hard for me to read and hard, in some ways, because I see it so often. My fault, perhaps, for reading too many romance novels. And yet, Pinsker's clarity of vision overall means that the degree to which her characters fail to appreciate the consequences of their actions is painful in a way that I don't really enjoy reading. She moves past it quickly enough, but it's there and I don't like it.

Alright, two books down and at least 5 to go.