Split is a story about the constancy of change, the inevitability of disruption, and the roles that humans play as creators and destroyers in each other’s lives. After big changes or major losses, grief can cause numbness. Forces in our lives pull us back into full experience. Through inventive structure and language, Kasa pushes her characters through painful transformations that are told in personal, philosophical, and cosmic dimensions.
Few things put me in a trance-like state while reading them--The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is one. Split was the other. I've read it twice and it was stunning both times. The poetics, the structure--this is another example of Kasa's amazing talent. Buy this, buy everything. Her work never disappoints.