A review by kell_xavi
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

There’s a distance, an observant quietude touched with melancholy, a passive empathy and a passive malice both, to this book. Sometimes, the narrator seems to forget her own self, observing a daughter or a friend or a student before the psyche once again coalesces with the identity. There’s a lightness to many observations, even the stirring, heavy ones. There’s so often an acidic undercurrent to the lives of rich boarding school girls, a normality to their objectification and a seepage of closeness into obsession. I enjoyed Jaeggy’s story a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia, Racism, and Suicide