genXcrone (she/her)Her Beautiful Life by Brianna Labuskes
4.5/5 stars.
This book is about identity, the kind you're forced into, the kind you form for yourself, and all the internal and external conflicts that come with those identities. It's about relationships and which ones are "real," and how that comes to be. It's also about how far our responsibility toward others extends.
Labuskes brought a deep understanding of parasocial relationships and unintended consequences to this book. The skewering of the trad wife influencer sphere was brutal but also sympathetic, and her few stabs at publishers abandoning journalism were also on point. And of course there was a twist or twelve.