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Parts of Us by Miguel Rual

georgehunter's review

5.0

Initially this... collection let's call it, seems limited by it's lack of fluidity in English and obvious switching of pronouns to avoid speaking in the first person... and yet this is a deeply personal book, if denied then clearly undeniable once one sees the two reproductions of facial symmetries (each produced from only one half of the face)... reading this collection, then, while considering its author is both revealing and provides the book its pleasure - one wouldn't want fluidity anyway, and the pronoun switching, well, maybe that's part of the point. those faces serve as a guide - one face clear, shining and free; the other, troubled... and this collection is a bridge between those faces, the one we see and the one hidden away; we arrive at the end to understand how the shining face exists because of the troubled face... intimate, generous, endearing and terribly real - a part of them, a part of one, a part of us, the whole of us