The prose poems in YOU scour the distance between girlhood and middle age with wit, fraying into ruminations on all that’s inherited as a woman surviving gendered violence.Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it “gathers itself over time to become whole, ” recovering the speaker’s intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of a woman's survival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.