We’ve all wanted to know a little more about a partner’s ex. But as the protagonist of Taylor’s compulsive debut discovers, you click at your own risk
his review begins with a confession: I’m a lurker. I once found a website through which you can watch people’s Instagram stories without them knowing; multiple times per day, I typed in the name of the ex of the man I was seeing. I searched everything she posted – photos of food, selfies, songs – for hints about their relationship, which I hoped would tell me more about him. I knew it was unhinged, but I couldn’t stop.
Ana is the typical white millennial woman: she works at a tech startup with a plant-filled office and communicates in gifs and memes. Like many people her age, she’s cynical and disaffected, which directly clashes with the Ted talk culture pummelled at her by friends and colleagues. The author employs smart stylistic choices – Ana’s ex, with whom she had an entire life, is never named, while Emily, a woman she never knew, is rendered in full colour. Evan is given very little personality or detail; we know that he’s some kind of finance bro and comes from a wealthy family, but other than that he could be anyone. Taylor zooms in on the singular obsessiveness that can overtake a dopamine-flooded brain in the early days of infatuation.
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