A wild wild trip that I wasn't at all expecting nor was prepared for. It feels like written for readers years more educated than I am and with lessons I yet have to learn. Still, even with it being a book I picked at random after reading the text blurb and seeing the cover during a book buying rush, it spoke to me about life in a way that few books have. The journey of Tiff's and Stephen's marriage with its shortcomings and moments of great love feels like a lifetime, especially in the circumstances that I got to read the book and the ones that I am living through right now. First love feels like all that is needed for someone to be your forever and in some ways, this book encapsulates that façade in its purest form. Love permeates through every moment the two of them interact, no matter who is sleeping with who at the current moment. Even though Tiff attributes Stephen's attachment to their marriage solely to convenience and it being the thing people do, I know that she is aware of what she means to him more than she realizes. I am grateful to have gotten more than a little view into a lifetime of drama, sex and birdwatching through random chance and feel changed already without quite knowing how or why, especially by some paragraphs that require at least half a dozen re-reads before I am enlightened.