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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
Finished last night but I have no idea what to say about this book. I thought parts were well written and beautifully done but the audiobook made it tough to follow due to the story not being chronological.
I remember being frustrated with this one when I read it for the first time back in 2019. I’m not sure why. Just read it again for class and I think it’s brilliant. Upping from 3 stars to 5.
“It snowed when we fell in love. Everything reminded me of warm milk. Everything seemed less real. I thought my cup was overflowing. I found myself caressing my own face.”
“I learned that any power asks you to dedicate your life to its expansion. Things feel continuous when I think of my gifts and my heritage. With you, things don’t feel right sometimes. I believe you obstruct my healing. What I notice with you is that I look outside whenever I’m close to a window, and I wonder how many women feel that way. I feel things I would rather feel alone.”
“For you, and our child, and my sons, I said what happened up and down the page. Because, if my sons want to see how terrible our love was, and why we chose it, they can see us closest here.”
“You seemed engaged by my dysfunction because you are a writer and not because I had experienced it.”
“You think weakness is a problem. I want to be torn apart by everything.”
“It snowed when we fell in love. Everything reminded me of warm milk. Everything seemed less real. I thought my cup was overflowing. I found myself caressing my own face.”
“I learned that any power asks you to dedicate your life to its expansion. Things feel continuous when I think of my gifts and my heritage. With you, things don’t feel right sometimes. I believe you obstruct my healing. What I notice with you is that I look outside whenever I’m close to a window, and I wonder how many women feel that way. I feel things I would rather feel alone.”
“For you, and our child, and my sons, I said what happened up and down the page. Because, if my sons want to see how terrible our love was, and why we chose it, they can see us closest here.”
“You seemed engaged by my dysfunction because you are a writer and not because I had experienced it.”
“You think weakness is a problem. I want to be torn apart by everything.”
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
It took me a while to finish this book, not only because of the affecting subject matter but also the way Mailhot chose to write it. The sentences seem almost circular, winding around and into themselves, each thought opening up more tendrils of thought in a vast root network. I can only describe it as a very Indigenous manner of storytelling and it's exactly what's so effective here.
this book was beautifully and poetically written. it highlights the importance of resilience and the struggles and stories of living in the wake of colonialism and trauma.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
tense
slow-paced