Body Grammar

Sometimes, though rarely, I will read a book and feel like I'm watching a movie as I read. Reflecting on this beautiful funny sweet melancholy moving book, I experienced something rarer still: feeling like the story I read was a life I got to live, among characters who felt like real people. Lou had planned to stay in Portland post-graduation, but after a freak accident that was "the worst thing that's ever happened to her" she changes her mind, finally giving into modeling recruiters who have been hounding her for years. While she's catapulted into this new, glittering career and world—which gave me satisfying America's Next Top Model vibes—she's reckoning with questions of who she is and what she wants, the girl and friends she left behind, and the trauma that put her on her current path.