“The anger and rage we might feel towards a father, towards the patriarch—towards the raving brutes or the civilized fathers—is not something we can expel, once and for all, and nor does it yield a clear solution. Rage has instead to be folded into everything else we may simultaneously feel; it does not simply burn itself out. What's more, love and hate are not opposites, but are developmentally entangled. We have to be able to hate in order to love.”
This was a really interesting essay that taught me a lot! I really enjoyed Katherine Angel's closer look at how pop culture becomes our culture. She mentioned a ton of names that I'm going to look more deeply into. It did feel more like...a very long essay than a book, but I suppose books can be that. I wish it were a part of a collection.

To be completely transparent, I DNF'ed this title at just over 50%.
The language was far over my head, and I personally couldn't tell if the author was being serious or attempting to draw methaphors.
As someone who has had a complicated relationship with both her bio-dad and her stepfather, I was looking forward to reading this, but it unfortunately fell flat for me