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4.0
I started at the ending with Kelley, like (to use the popular comp for this book) starting at Finnegan's Wake without touching Ulysses let alone Dubliners or Portrait. This is a wild novel about being black Americans in a postmodern Europe, and its one I had to let wash over me at various points. In terms of experimental deconstruction of language, it isn't impenetrable per se, as Kelley dissolves language in terms of phonetics, but it still forces you to enunciate. Excited to weave my way through Kelley's other novels now that they are all easily available.
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