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A review by lostcupofstars
People in the Room by Norah Lange
4.0
“I often found them absorbed in a silence that seemed to thicken around them, through which they would have to wade with great effort, before uttering a word…”
This is a complex, crossword puzzle of a book. The whole thing felt claustrophobic but still, I kept reading, craving a few pages of air. That air never came and it made the book even more masterful imo.
Loneliness is explored in such a suffocating way, it makes you question what is really happening and what isn’t. Our nameless protagonist spends painstaking hours watching these three figures across the street. She’s unreliable as hell, but still we want to put our trust in her, earnest as she is.
At times I felt it dragged a little which is the only thing that kept me from giving it 5.
This isn’t the type of book I would recommend to many but if you like these things, give it a read:
- language that envelops
- blurred lines between reality and hallucination
- unreliable narrator
- loose plot
This is a complex, crossword puzzle of a book. The whole thing felt claustrophobic but still, I kept reading, craving a few pages of air. That air never came and it made the book even more masterful imo.
Loneliness is explored in such a suffocating way, it makes you question what is really happening and what isn’t. Our nameless protagonist spends painstaking hours watching these three figures across the street. She’s unreliable as hell, but still we want to put our trust in her, earnest as she is.
At times I felt it dragged a little which is the only thing that kept me from giving it 5.
This isn’t the type of book I would recommend to many but if you like these things, give it a read:
- language that envelops
- blurred lines between reality and hallucination
- unreliable narrator
- loose plot