Really powerful and interesting book.
Incredibly strange prose but its really great.
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ive also already rec’d “a grief observed” by c.s. Lewis on here but it is truly one of the most poignant and beautiful things I’ve ever read, a heartbreaking personal meditation on loss, faith, and love. if you’re cool with reading something devoutly religious, I can’t recommend this enough. I’ve attached a photo of the opening lines.
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A tense, slow burning, gripping read.
“It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.”
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
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Captures something essential about grief: the longing to cram your entire body into a small space and stay there until a lover pulls you out.
I tried reading it almost two years ago and had to stop because it made me so mad. Now I think it’s brilliant and the thing that made me mad the first time is the most important thing in the book.
Heti is best Canadian writer since Munro and will go down as the best ever if she keeps batting this high.
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