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katrinky's review against another edition
3.0
Read entirely on the plane back from Austin. What a strange, flowering, poetic book about the Mississippi delta and the havoc of Katrina. I'll have to revisit it to let it sink in. I'm glad I read it, and will give it to friends to read, and will 100% definitely forget everything about it because it was so disconnected and whimsical.
emily_amick's review against another edition
I get what is good about this book. I just can't read it right now. My brain needs something a little more straightforward than this.
Part play, part poetry, part stream of conscious monologue, part fictional memoir told in the first person. It's all over the place and I can't switch gears fast enough to folloow.
Part play, part poetry, part stream of conscious monologue, part fictional memoir told in the first person. It's all over the place and I can't switch gears fast enough to folloow.
emharperscott's review
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
hannahvwarren's review against another edition
5.0
Retelling the Christian origin story, Saterstrom writes, “Night took the faces of this man and woman and peeled them off like a question formed inside a fetal darknesss mouth. There, they saw a blood scene. And when finally underwater, the woman mouthed back, I do. The snake said, Do you want some of this fruit from this terrific tree? She did” (165).
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