Carina Stopenski's Reviews > What About the Rest of Your Life

this memoir encapsulates the complicated entanglement of love, trauma, and codependency in a remarkable way. yim’s frenetic narrative style coupled with the ennui of drug-addled small town life is mesmerizing, capturing the mundane reality of their experiences with true poignancy. the short segments are not only easy to digest, but help set a pace wherein time is fluid and things move differently. yim’s words are powerful, and through their honesty and critical evaluation of self, a real gem of literary nonfiction has developed.