A woman with the magazine job, the fiancé and the apartment, built entirely as armour over something that happened to her at fifteen.
The present-day chapters are deliberately unpleasant. She is snobbish and calculating, and the book makes you dislike her before it explains her, which is a risk that pays off.
What it is really about is the gap between what happened and the version she has had to agree to in order to be employable.
Read July 2016.