Emily S.'s Reviews > I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

Named for the Jawbreaker song, Mariah Stovall’s debut sets a story of all-consuming obsession against the backdrop of the 2010s indie punk scene. The fact that this novel is an “annotated mixtape” easily could be missed; the footnotes for each song could be mistaken for ordinary chapter numbers, and the track list is hidden at the end of the novel. Maybe Stovall wanted to avoid alienating those not familiar with a niche music scene, but foregrounding the music could have added more color and context to this claustrophobic story of a codependent friendship.

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