In many ways, Dieterich’s provocative, poetic memoir is about wanting more than what we—particularly as women—are told we can have. It is a meditation on openness and constraints, on partnership and absence, and it hinges on Dieterich’s experience of a period of polyamory within her marriage, a time during which both she and her husband explored relationships with other partners while also staying tethered to one another. But it is also a book about making choices, and knowing that those decisions are best made after thoroughly exploring the available options, and also fully getting to know ourselves in the process.

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