Completed: February 17, 2024
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
It should not matter, but Griffiths is the spouse of Salmon Rushdie. I'm sure that this has an impact. This is also her first novel (she has several books of poetry). The turns of phrase and imagery in this book are often excellent. The concepts described by the 14 year-old narrator, however, are so far beyond her years that they are jarring. I have to say that this book is really, really sad. I find books like this (that sort of wallow in sadness and look for every opportunity to indulge in the worst part of character analysis to be unrelatable. While I absolutely accept that people have had to live through horror and have often done so with simply shocking character, this book felt like a traipse through generations highlighting horror at the expense of everything else.
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