A review by internationalkris
Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino

4.0

A quirky Kafkaesque look at a young woman's life in the week just before her wedding. At the opening of the book The Bride finds herself in a conversation with her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, on another day she wakes up in the body of her mother. At one point the story circles back to the horrific event that divided her life into a before and after and left her scarred both mentally and physically. There is a lot of insight in this short novel. I experienced it as an audiobook and the reader was quite good however there are so many bizarre moments that I would have liked to pause on and consider that I knew I would have preferred it in print.