The Details

It all came together beautifully in the end, not from a plot perspective (there is none), but in the construction of this character. This book's narrator describes people who have been close to her throughout her life and have had an impact. In her descriptions, you get a glimpse of her worldview, her values, what she admires and what she fears. These descriptions also give way to reflections about their differences.

Here's a few of my favorite examples:
“I found her way of turning on and off both admirable and disconcerting. It insinuated that she had that thing known as ‘full control', which came across as mature, but there was an inhuman bent to it, too, an inhuman temperature.”

“She was an ocean of feelings, with more gradients and nuances than she could handle, as if the full cast of Greek gods and all the emotions and states they represented had been crammed in behind her eyelids.”

This is a character study in relation to people close to her. It's understated in its pursuit of the knowledge of the self. The last chapter really made it feel like all the fragments of this person came together and crystallized into a shape that made more sense to me as a reader. No plot, just vibes.