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A review by cornmaven
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
3.0
The aftermath of an out of the blue murder of young child by a mother is explored, going back and forth between past and present.
It was compelling. The writing was wonderful, but I knocked it down a star because it got really weird at the end as Ruskovich got more literary and less understandable in her tale. There were parts that to me were incomprehensible just because of the manner in which words were strung together, and some went nowhere. A couple of characters appear and a lot of time is spent on them, but I couldn't understand why.
We never really understand why Jenny did what she did, which was disappointing. But maybe that was the point - people can do horrific things at the drop of a hat and then have to live with the consequences forever. Ann's relationship with Wade figures strongly into the narrative of that moment, but still didn't convince me enough.
It was compelling. The writing was wonderful, but I knocked it down a star because it got really weird at the end as Ruskovich got more literary and less understandable in her tale. There were parts that to me were incomprehensible just because of the manner in which words were strung together, and some went nowhere. A couple of characters appear and a lot of time is spent on them, but I couldn't understand why.
We never really understand why Jenny did what she did, which was disappointing. But maybe that was the point - people can do horrific things at the drop of a hat and then have to live with the consequences forever. Ann's relationship with Wade figures strongly into the narrative of that moment, but still didn't convince me enough.