armedaphrodite 's review for:

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The sort of prose that encourages you to Feel more than think. The way things are described feels malleable, like a person's subjective experience always, and even the moments that actually get covered are "colored" by Geryon's experiences of them. The ways we organize our lives in memory