Interesting concept. It succeeds at incapsulating a complex snapshot of being a cis white male in Western culture via jumping around into various characters at various points in their lives, giving more context than I would say is typical for toxic masculinity.

The problem I had with it was that it became very hard to connect with each character as it jumps around. While there are a few stand out moments, I never really grew to be more than a third party observer of these various people and events. And the prose style actually doesn’t help much with that problem. Sometimes it is intimate, sometimes meandering, always feeling a bit transient.

The overall feeling I’m left with is that it does what it aims to do but isn’t quite cohesive enough beyond the goal to have exceeded my expectations. Was worth a read though. Especially if you’re a white cis male, I think the more books approaching toxic masculinity, the better.