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A review by sidselgchr
Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
2.0
Listned to this, read by the author.
This was a strange, angry, sort of blind stubMle through the life and tribulations of an irish girl, growing up in the late aughts, early tens. It was well written and the character study of GayLe,the brother, father, mother were all rich and textured, but sort of lacking.
It's first person narrative, so we don't know more than G knows, and her naivite becomes a main character in this novel. It's poetic and her luck seems a little magical from time to time.
It seems more like the fantasical over the top stories you tell someone you want to impress at a party. There's is a hint of irreality about the whole thing, despite it being anchored in specific years, specific world news, the iraq war, the financial crisis, occopy wallstreet.
It's a very self obsessed novel, G being a very uncompromising character. She's hot and cold, always calculating, always trying to find the most profitable way out for herself, without ever considering anyone else's feelings. She assumes everyone wants what she wants, that everyone craves the same cold success. She has a very hard time seeing other people as real, as having feelings and being as complicated as her. As not just being background characters in her story, but their own beings.
It comes across very unsettling sometimes, but also sort of fresh and new to let a female character be that selfish, that driven.
This was a strange, angry, sort of blind stubMle through the life and tribulations of an irish girl, growing up in the late aughts, early tens. It was well written and the character study of GayLe,the brother, father, mother were all rich and textured, but sort of lacking.
It's first person narrative, so we don't know more than G knows, and her naivite becomes a main character in this novel. It's poetic and her luck seems a little magical from time to time.
It seems more like the fantasical over the top stories you tell someone you want to impress at a party. There's is a hint of irreality about the whole thing, despite it being anchored in specific years, specific world news, the iraq war, the financial crisis, occopy wallstreet.
It's a very self obsessed novel, G being a very uncompromising character. She's hot and cold, always calculating, always trying to find the most profitable way out for herself, without ever considering anyone else's feelings. She assumes everyone wants what she wants, that everyone craves the same cold success. She has a very hard time seeing other people as real, as having feelings and being as complicated as her. As not just being background characters in her story, but their own beings.
It comes across very unsettling sometimes, but also sort of fresh and new to let a female character be that selfish, that driven.