Scan barcode
A review by jessicah95
Flesh of the Peach by Helen McClory
4.0
A combination of Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Emily Fridlund's History of Wolves, and Jade Sharma's Problems.
McClory's self-confessed unlikeable heroine is equal parts unreliable and erratic in her narration. The prose is searingly vulnerable, experimental, and often challenging. What starts out as a pretty atypical narrative (a grieving young woman embarking on a road trip to find herself), soon twists into a downward spiral of something more compellingly sinister.
I was provided with an eBook of this through Netgalley (many moons ago), in exchange for an honest review, but I had since bought myself a paperback anyway.
McClory's self-confessed unlikeable heroine is equal parts unreliable and erratic in her narration. The prose is searingly vulnerable, experimental, and often challenging. What starts out as a pretty atypical narrative (a grieving young woman embarking on a road trip to find herself), soon twists into a downward spiral of something more compellingly sinister.
I was provided with an eBook of this through Netgalley (many moons ago), in exchange for an honest review, but I had since bought myself a paperback anyway.