#rachelcusktogether

Nice segue from the classroom session on animals, when Faye wakes the next morning to the unexpected woman who is like a goose.
Anne is Faye stepping outside herself.

Also, it seemed strange to me that they wrote these stories but instead of exchanging or reading them aloud in class, they just relate what's in them. That being said, Sylvia's contest with Mimi the dog makes me forget the contrivance. I'm absorbed in it, wondering who will prevail! (Neither?)

"If a man had a nasty side...She didn't want it roaming unseen in the hinterland of the relationship: she wanted to provoke it... Melete laughed. 'According to that logic...there can be no relationship at all. There can only be people stalking one another.'" #rachelcusktogether

I think the pace is just right. There's something jarring (? not sure what word to use) about the narrative voice, which simultaneously feels intimate and detached. Sometimes it seems as if there's too much of a connection, that the truths are uncomfortable.

What wounds her isn’t only what he says, but the collapse of that self-image—the realization that she’s peripheral to his story.