The blurb on the ebook plays itself up a bit much, talking about the paper version’s “complexity”, which is a very grandiose way of saying that this is effectively two books with one published upside down. an effect I first saw in 2006 with The Simpsons Ultra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book, so y’know. The “first” half (at least for me) is the novella, blurring into autofiction, with the “second” half being more memoir, providing context for Lacey’s mindset in writing the former. I’m sure the experience would be slightly different the other way around, but I don’t think to any great degree. The memoir is much more interesting, more open and expansive in thought, as opposed to the novella which keeps itself tightly wound.