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Powerful a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madnessThe Boston Globe

We learn about the cracks in Felixs upbringing the hurt from the breakup itself and a pain that spans a lifetime all through a sharp millennial voiceTime

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Time Chicago Public Library Electric Lit

When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup culminating in a hospital stay everythingfrom her early childhood trauma and mental health to her relationship with mathematicsshows up in the tapestry of her healing In this exquisite and raw reflection Felix repossesses herself through the exploration of history shed left behind using her childhood dyscalculiaa disorder that makes it difficult to learn mathas a metaphor for the consequences of her miscalculations in love Through reckoning with this breakup and other adult gambles in intimacy Felix asks the question Who gets to assert their right to pain

Dyscalculia negotiates the misalignments of perception and reality love and harm and the politics of heartbreak both romantic and familial