"It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing," Vanessa Roveto, acclaimed author of bodys, begins her book within the remnants of a car crash, fragmenting identity, grief, and heart. Beginning with the death of daddy, the "I" soon meshes with whatever and whomever she comes into contact with--strangers, actors, a Covid crush. She absorbs these people and objects, dispersing them into the Southern California landscape,...
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