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A review by embfitz
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
I suspect a number of people like this book because there are elements and sections to which they can relate, but I had to abandon that notion for myself pretty quickly. I set aside the pencil I try to keep in my hand, because I was arguing with the text WAY too much. When I sat down with it to read, I imagined putting on a spacesuit, and exploring a new planet.
The structure of GREEN GIRL is one of my favorite kinds -- seemingly disjointed, but unquestionably not. The rules of the book's world are laid down in ways that don't feel tedious. There's an obvious attention to language that I really liked -- especially when it snuck up on me, which doesn't happen often in general. The characters are vivid, they're perfect and flawed in very literal and palpable ways. Their struggles come from all sides. Ruth's complex and basic, frustrating and wearying. The environment is almost headachingly vivid.
This will sound like a sly line, but I absolutely don't mean it that way:
I would love to see more SFF like this.
The structure of GREEN GIRL is one of my favorite kinds -- seemingly disjointed, but unquestionably not. The rules of the book's world are laid down in ways that don't feel tedious. There's an obvious attention to language that I really liked -- especially when it snuck up on me, which doesn't happen often in general. The characters are vivid, they're perfect and flawed in very literal and palpable ways. Their struggles come from all sides. Ruth's complex and basic, frustrating and wearying. The environment is almost headachingly vivid.
This will sound like a sly line, but I absolutely don't mean it that way:
I would love to see more SFF like this.