MixedThe Cut\"The final product—which has been lauded as a timely entry in a \'feminist Zeitgeist\'— feels less like a sweeping cultural statement and more like a small exercise in self-improvement ... there are so many upsides to Febos’s celibacy that her experiment feels frictionless. She both has no problem being alone and no shortage of desirable people who want to sleep with her.\
Jen Beagin
RaveThe CutA refreshingly anti-trauma-plot novel, posing the question: Does self-victimization come at the cost of an interesting or, at the very least, okay life? ... The book is wry, fresh, and absorbing, without flashbacks, maudlin confessions, or self-seriousness.