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I don't think I can adequately review this book; I've said everything I want to say in conversation at the reading group I set up. It's a tour de force, and I believe it is exactly right.
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This is a marvellous book. It’s funny; it’s full of outrage and despair at the state of the world; it’s full of warmth and love. The novel’s formal idiosyncrasy - a long stream-of-consciousness monologue in the mind of a pie-making Ohio mum, fragmented around the short and intense story of a mountain lion navigating her way through the human world - rapidly becomes familiar. The format allows the construction of a distinctive, highly discursive, character-driven narrative that can incorporate ri
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A review seems somewhat pointless. You'll know after a page if you're interested in the style. A novel not so much read as divined where the story reveals itself amidst a cloud of word association, film references and repetitive underlying themes. Also a lion.
I found 'the fact that' substituted for punctuation in my brain early on in quite a comforting way, and the rhythmic nature of it meant I often found myself falling asleep reading it.
I was expecting something more profound than maybe what ...more
I found 'the fact that' substituted for punctuation in my brain early on in quite a comforting way, and the rhythmic nature of it meant I often found myself falling asleep reading it.
I was expecting something more profound than maybe what ...more
I’m going to miss this narrator so much. It was like sitting down with an old friend and now that it’s over, it’s left me to recover from what I anticipate to be a week-long book hangover. If you are looking for a book to get lost in - for something out of the ordinary, yet meditative - I recommend this one.
Jul 16, 2020
Emma Sedlak
marked it as to-read
