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sarahglen 's review for:
The Vanishers
by Heidi Julavits
I love Julavits, but this web of center-less grief wasn't my favorite and got a little murky ~halfway through.
That said, I will now think of the phrase "eyes starfished by mascara" every time I put makeup on.
A few other lines I enjoyed:
— "Clarity, it turns out, is a death sentence."
— "Because disambiguation recurs, after a time. Your life becomes your life and you need to leave it again."
— "I touched my cheek, always an alienating sensation. The anti-seizure meds numbed my skin; to touch my face was to enter a failed romance between body parts."
— "My poor father acted around me like a guy expecting to be dumped."
—"I ate the cold dinner Sun delivered while Borka flipped through her paper with the rage of old people in charge of television remotes."
— "She'd had a duty to be interested in me; that alone should have kept her alive, at least until my first Christmas, or until my first day of school, or until my first heartbreak, or until my first bad haircut, or until..."
That said, I will now think of the phrase "eyes starfished by mascara" every time I put makeup on.
A few other lines I enjoyed:
— "Clarity, it turns out, is a death sentence."
— "Because disambiguation recurs, after a time. Your life becomes your life and you need to leave it again."
— "I touched my cheek, always an alienating sensation. The anti-seizure meds numbed my skin; to touch my face was to enter a failed romance between body parts."
— "My poor father acted around me like a guy expecting to be dumped."
—"I ate the cold dinner Sun delivered while Borka flipped through her paper with the rage of old people in charge of television remotes."
— "She'd had a duty to be interested in me; that alone should have kept her alive, at least until my first Christmas, or until my first day of school, or until my first heartbreak, or until my first bad haircut, or until..."