A review by rmolnar
Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis

4.0

Chloe Aridjis captures perfectly the feelings of being lost and lonely, yet content, in a foreign but familiar city. The weight of the city's history is always present. It is heavy and presses in on the reader, as it does the book's characters. I found Book of Clouds to be simultaneously comforting and unsettling - a real feat, in my opinion - and by the end I felt as disconnected from the world as Tatiana is in the novel.

It isn't a particularly plot-driven novel, but a meandering exploration of home, self and history. I thoroughly enjoyed that exploration even if, in the end, it resulted in much self-reflection.