Reviews with content warning for Rape - little scratch

A really audacious undertaking for a debut novel. A really deft hand is required to make a narrative style like this anything but a nightmare to try and read. I liken the scope of the narrative to Faulkner (Sound and the Fury) in that it's delivered in a way that can be confusing... but in the end it absolutely lends to the reality of the story.

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challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I grabbed this after seeing the acclaimed play version at New Diorama, and, boy, am I glad I did. What a powerhouse -- innovative in form without ever resorting to gimmick. The last few pages took my breath away, if only because they were extraordinary in their ordinariness.

The author writes in her acknowledgements about the fondness she's developed for her protagonist, and I'm in complete agreement; she's unnamed but she's hard to shake from your brain. This is all to say: I'll be thinking about this one for a long while!

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emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

If you want to know what trauma feels like and sounds like inwardly, read this book.

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4.0

Took me a minute to get into the style of this book but once I got in the zone I really felt it helped to immerse me in the main character's thoughts and experiences over the course of this day, as if I was living it with her. This was a painful read and the parts where she was rehearsing how to say what had happened and where it was popping up as an intrusive thought when she was doing other things were like memories for me rather than fiction. Well done. Confused about the toilet note writer, though, what was that about?

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