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challenging
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
The entirety of these hundred pages felt like a fever dream. The story winds through the narrator's adolescence, purposefully disjointed, as if her recollection of early life is coming to mind out of order. To me, the strongest theme (and emotion, really) that this story portrays is "memory." How and what we remember, why certain moments of young adulthood feel critical and dire, what concepts form as we are experiencing attraction and desire for the first time. I wish I could've read this in it's original Italian. The prose is so incredibly lush. It gives a heady feeling, full of poetic language that I think I will recall for a long time.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Suicide
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