A review by mrs_bonaventure
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie

3.0

I'm ambivalent about this book. The writing is immediate, beautiful, real and had me from the first page - but it's also darkly comic, so much so that it made me cringe a lot (maybe because it ran so very very true to mother/ daughter experience). It's a romp that races towards the conclusion the same way Austen did in Emma, but not as lightly, although with much compassion. I enjoyed it though.