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brogan7's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.0
An unusual telling. An obscuring of facts to get at deeper realities. Are they real people? The lawyer, the doctor, the judge, seem like allegories of themselves. But the girl, the parents, the anguish--the suffering and stupidity. It is almost impossible to understand, as though certain key words were shuffled and nonsense was inserted instead. But then that's a bit what the story is in itself, absurdity. A real girl, dead of medication, because by the age of 4 she is diagnosed with ADD and bipolar disorder and medicated so heavily by the parents she dies.
The story, told in poetry, resists a simple blaming game.
The story, told in poetry, resists a simple blaming game.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death
cctheunicorn's review
3.0
3.5
Overall I really liked this. This is the first time I’ve read an event or narrative told completely in verse and I think it was mostly successful. I was tracking a lot of the metaphors, however at times I found it got so nonsensical that I wasn’t totally sure what Goyette was trying to say. I did enjoy dark and whimsical tone of this, it reminded me of a Grimms fairy tale.
Overall I really liked this. This is the first time I’ve read an event or narrative told completely in verse and I think it was mostly successful. I was tracking a lot of the metaphors, however at times I found it got so nonsensical that I wasn’t totally sure what Goyette was trying to say. I did enjoy dark and whimsical tone of this, it reminded me of a Grimms fairy tale.
mappingoutasky's review
5.0
I think I have a crush on Sue Goyette, guys.
I loved this book. I was in tears for most of it. And hearing her speak about it in my class was amazing. God I loved it.
Read for ENGL 4471: Contemporary Canadian Poetry
I loved this book. I was in tears for most of it. And hearing her speak about it in my class was amazing. God I loved it.
Read for ENGL 4471: Contemporary Canadian Poetry
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