A review by lee_foust
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano

4.0

This novel seemed exactly to fit the description that people tend to give all of Modiano's novels perfectly and which I've always found a little off as descriptions of the few others that I've read. So maybe this is the quintessential Modiano? or maybe it's just the one that many people read first as it came out the same year he won the Nobel so all of the others are somehow seen as variations of it.

At any rate, I really enjoyed it. Like all of his novels it meanders in a kind of haze of the narrator's combined indifference, melancholy, and a vague nostalgic longing for they seem to know not what. Nothing is resolved. It doesn't even seem like resolution could ever be an option. Such narratives might be a little too close to actual reality for many readers. I loved it.