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This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
5.0
Absolutely beautiful.
This Thing Between Us is a cosmic horror book about grief and learning to cope with a huge loss. It is told in first person by Thiago, who recently lost his wife to a terrible incident caused by another person. We hear about his memories of his wife, along with his ideas of death itself and the disingenuous, performative way that people behave towards it.
Thiago starts to encounter haunting interactions between himself and his Itza (an Alexa-type household device), all while trying to figure out exactly what happened to his wife and who was at fault. Things become even more confusing and terrifying when he buys a secluded house far from home in order to grieve alone.
This book is darkly funny, while also being incredibly heartbreaking. I was thoroughly impressed with Gus Moreno, this being his first novel. I love his writing style and related to Thiago’s cynical views on loss. I even found myself reading some of the especially profound paragraphs out loud to my partner, so that we could discuss them- something I haven’t done with other books.
This Thing Between Us is a cosmic horror book about grief and learning to cope with a huge loss. It is told in first person by Thiago, who recently lost his wife to a terrible incident caused by another person. We hear about his memories of his wife, along with his ideas of death itself and the disingenuous, performative way that people behave towards it.
Thiago starts to encounter haunting interactions between himself and his Itza (an Alexa-type household device), all while trying to figure out exactly what happened to his wife and who was at fault. Things become even more confusing and terrifying when he buys a secluded house far from home in order to grieve alone.
This book is darkly funny, while also being incredibly heartbreaking. I was thoroughly impressed with Gus Moreno, this being his first novel. I love his writing style and related to Thiago’s cynical views on loss. I even found myself reading some of the especially profound paragraphs out loud to my partner, so that we could discuss them- something I haven’t done with other books.