A review by billierwalker
Large Animals by Jess Arndt

3.0

This is hard to hold onto. Large Animals is made up of surreal beautiful phrases that are so poignant but they get washed away in the sand. Reading this feels the same as deconstructing the inside of your own head. When you keep hearing that societal voice and unpacking it, questioning it and throwing it away. Then you come to some small nugget of your truth. A perfect crystallising moment of understanding where you can clearly see yourself. It feels so clear and strong that you will hold onto it forever and then the outside world gets in. It chips away at the thought and before you know it you are muddled in confusion again. That’s what it feels like to read Jess Arndt’s debut. Nothing is binary, nothing is concrete; it is blissfully confounding.