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Tony
Nov 24, 2023 rated it it was ok
In the author's first book, a Lebanese man fleeing the civil war makes it to Paris, where he is counseled to continue to Montreal and seek asylum. The narrator of this book is quite possibly that same guy, now in Montreal, and seething with self-loathing and general loathing at the world (along with plenty of lusting). The book opens with him having just attempted suicide and being required to see a therapist as a result. And so the book toggles back and forth between his current stalking the st ...more
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