Don't have much to say about this book. It's not great but it has its positive qualities. The writing is not great. However, if the premise of the story interests you, you should try it. If you had an abortion twenty or so years ago, what would it be like to imagine a life in which you hadn't made that decision? What if you could fill all that time that's passed in between with details from a life that never began? That's what this book attempts.
I found this book had a few gems in it - whether it was a curiously written sentence, an interesting name, or an interesting thought here and there. However, often it fails as a book - sort of because the writer is used to writing in the abstract, in songs. She fails at the longer distance race that is novel writing. That makes a difference as a reader because it is noticeable, distracting, and tiresome. But, for my part having read it, I try to remember the things I did enjoy about it. And I had never read a book by a musician before. Or one that so paralleled real life (the songwriter speaks of songs she wrote, put the lyrics in the text, and it turned out that the music really existed and I could listen to the song). That was a really weird extra-book life that I've never known a book to have before. It seemed cool but maybe it was just weird.
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