“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat
jan 24th, 2025. ☆☆☆☆☆ stars.
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.�
... ୨ৎ review(spoiler warning) taking away the racial aspect, which did take me off guard (but not surprising because esther's thought process surely was the same to others in her time) it’s scary how the mind of esther greenwood resembles my own. throughout the duration of the book, i had to stop reading because i would tear up a little. from her therapy sessions to her romance, her anger, and the fig tree theory, i felt as if i could completely understand her and her point of view. i could relate to esther especially in the scene with her doreen and lenny, because i, too, always feel like a third wheel....more
ꪆৎ� � � dear iris... | “i am so afraid. and yet how i long to be vulnerable and brave when it comes to my own heart.�
jan 24th, 2025. ☆☆☆☆☆ stars.
ꪆৎ� � � dear iris... | “i am so afraid. and yet how i long to be vulnerable and brave when it comes to my own heart.�
... ୨ৎ review. (spoiler warning) REBECCA ROSS WHEN I CATCH YOU!! AHHH when i tell you i am so ready to read the second book!! roman and iris' interactions made me giggle and kick my feet constantly WEHKLFQWJNrkj. ROMAN!! he's actually such an amazing character, and the way he cares for iris and is always worried about herrr.
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