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May 10, 2024
Melinda Worfolk
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This is such a strange book. I found the beginning to be a bit of a hard slog, but after 50 pages, things really picked up for me. Things started to actually happen. Disturbing things, mind you, but still.
Bernstein’s writing is really good, but her sentences are long, elliptical, and sometimes hard to parse. The narrator is weird and difficult to like—but I’m convinced this is intentional on the part of the author. Numerous times I found myself very irritated by the narrator and thinking, “Stop ...more
Bernstein’s writing is really good, but her sentences are long, elliptical, and sometimes hard to parse. The narrator is weird and difficult to like—but I’m convinced this is intentional on the part of the author. Numerous times I found myself very irritated by the narrator and thinking, “Stop ...more
First book of 2024 and it was a weird one. The description grabbed me - I love haunting, compressed masterworks! An expat inspires suspicion and distrust in a foreign land? Sign me up! The writing style was propulsive and unsettling and there were so many great uneasy details scattered in the stream-of-consciousness narration. But the sentences were long and sometimes hard to parse, so I couldn't read this before bed as it required a lot of attention. And then I got to the end and found no payof
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Short, strange, compelling. She loses her way a bit two thirds of the way through—orI lost my way!—but very much worth a read.
Nov 26, 2023
Lisa
marked it as to-read
