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A review by artemiscat
Still Lives by Maria Hummel
Darn- I so wanted to enjoy this one.
Spoiler***
Some of the relationships were really fascinating. Some of the male characters where fleshed out and unpredictable. Sometimes the narrator said and did things that carried her beyond her own past and self deprecation.
But also it felt like a panel on the hatred of women as presented in art was interrupted by a long-winded Q. and A. audience member who wants to say, like, misogyny is bad, but some women are really the worst? Without actually asking a question of our panelists. And I don’t want that to be the last quarter of a novel any more than I want to be impaled on my Mother-In-Law’s pseudo Dia: Beacon installation.
Spoiler***
Some of the relationships were really fascinating. Some of the male characters where fleshed out and unpredictable. Sometimes the narrator said and did things that carried her beyond her own past and self deprecation.
But also it felt like a panel on the hatred of women as presented in art was interrupted by a long-winded Q. and A. audience member who wants to say, like, misogyny is bad, but some women are really the worst? Without actually asking a question of our panelists. And I don’t want that to be the last quarter of a novel any more than I want to be impaled on my Mother-In-Law’s pseudo Dia: Beacon installation.