Cassie McCullough

Like she's very much ashamed of her dark nipples.

She actually had them bleached.

So they put on this chemical that take away the outer layer of the nipple to make them dark.

Pink, she writes, that sometimes I need to go into like a changing room just to look at my nipples to see how my beautiful pink nipples.

And I just found that like excruciating how painful that must be to kind of bleach your nipples.

But it's a lot, the book is a lot about women's beauty.

bodies it's about the relationship to the bodies and how the bodies in the end kind of lets you down and it's from a different perspective it's this this sister with the boob job she has a daughter that goes through puberty and it's a lot about her thoughts and her feelings about getting periods and about her kind of anger at her mom that she's so vain that she's going to go

And get a boob job.

And it's also classical puberty girl.

Like they don't speak.

They only talk through messages or they write.

She writes to her mum because she can't speak to her.

She doesn't know how to approach the mother.

They literally can't speak.

I mean, how...

How more symbolic can it be that you can only, as a pivotal person, you can only communicate with the outside world through messages and paper?

And then there is, of course, the main protagonist.

Her name is Natsu, and it's about her, a bit her body, about how her body is changing, but also what drives her is to have a child.

And that's the only kind of weirdness about this book, I feel, is that she's on the quest.

So the first book, half of the book is about the boob job.