Thanks to Pantheon Books for the free copy of this book.

 - THIN SKIN is the kind of essay collection I love: one where the author at first seems to ramble between ideas, but soon enough it all clicks together and you're reading passages aloud to anyone who will listen.
- This book is a perfect encapsulation of the current moment. How are we supposed to live when the world is crumbling around us? Does no one else see what's happening? What can we do to recognize the wrongs humans have enacted (and are enacting) on each other? How much impact do our individual choices have?
- All of this and more is explored through Shapland's own perspective as a white lesbian woman. The essays are not impersonal philosophical wanderings because her identity is inextricable from her experiences.