Maame

Just finished this today and am still processing it, but there was so much to love. March is the anniversary of my dad's birth and death, so this was really thematically resonant with me, and George is so incisive about grief, how family can support and abandon, workplace inanity, microaggressions, the perils of googling, friendship, and bad sex. Not all parts were successful: the texts between the protagonist and her mother were very funny and also painful, whereas the perils of googling could have been more succinctly pointed to in just one example of a google search, not many. George's beautiful acknowledgments at the end make explicitly clear what I felt the whole way through: this novel is a love letter to family, chosen and otherwise.