Incendiary moments captured, sometimes with childlike rapture then suddenly with wisdom as old as the sea. One moment you're living alongside the author as though you are really there in the moments she captures vividly; the next, you are just as perplexed as you try to decipher the riddle set out before you, no answer or cheat sheet, not even a clue as to what anything means. At times you are living incredible depths of joy, the next with no rhyme or reason your heart has been torn asunder just as hers had been without any why or how.
Considered an outcast in her family because she decided to live her life on her own terms and not by any societal standard, you will cheer for her and cry for her every step of the way.