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Enter Liz – an older, more famous, more successful, white female CEO who has leaned in, #girlbossed, and everything in between. She appears out of nowhere in Maya’s DMs and becomes an instrumental friend and mentor in her life. She also offers Maya a solution that seems too good to be true. An experimental pill that erases female guilt. Suddenly, Maya is doing better at work and at home. She finally feels like she can balance everything without disappointing anybody.
But the pill isn’t FDA approved and she’s experiencing some strange side effects. And she’s making some very uncharacteristic decisions that put her at odds with the people who have always loved her and believed in her. Are the pills safe? Is Liz a safe person? These are the questions that kept me turning pages until the novel’s thrilling conclusion.
The book actually feels more like a suspense/thriller novel than science fiction. But I loved the depth of Maya’s character, the speculative elements, and the exploration of both female guilt and female ambition. I’ve had a very different postpartum and motherhood experience than Maya, (thank goodness), but I still felt very seen by parts of this book.
