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sam_bizar_wilcox 's review for:
Bina: A Novel in Warnings
by Anakana Schofield
Schofield's voice is truly unique. I haven't read a novel with quite the same raw intensity as Bina before, and I wonder if I will again.
The novel, centering around the titular older woman, is difficult to piece together, as the narrator (who is Bina, but sometimes isn't) keeps her cards close to her chest, all while lashing out at the reader (and asking the reader to keep going). What becomes clear, however, is that Bina has dealt with, and is fed up with, trauma at the hands of men. And this screed his her warning: women beware...and men better beware, too.
Toxic masculinity, gender, nationalism, and the carceral state are torn to shreds in this take-no-prisoners polemic of a novel. And it is un-put-down-able (sp.?). Anakana Schofield is truly a talent whose writing is something to behold. I hesitate to call her prose rollicking because it's far more incendiary than the word implies, but there's an exuberance that is often left out of other readers' reviews. And this exuberance makes Schofield a writer I will want to revisit.
The novel, centering around the titular older woman, is difficult to piece together, as the narrator (who is Bina, but sometimes isn't) keeps her cards close to her chest, all while lashing out at the reader (and asking the reader to keep going). What becomes clear, however, is that Bina has dealt with, and is fed up with, trauma at the hands of men. And this screed his her warning: women beware...and men better beware, too.
Toxic masculinity, gender, nationalism, and the carceral state are torn to shreds in this take-no-prisoners polemic of a novel. And it is un-put-down-able (sp.?). Anakana Schofield is truly a talent whose writing is something to behold. I hesitate to call her prose rollicking because it's far more incendiary than the word implies, but there's an exuberance that is often left out of other readers' reviews. And this exuberance makes Schofield a writer I will want to revisit.