A review by sasha_in_a_box
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses

3.0

I don't know what was happening in this book 80% of the time. It's like a Stefan sketch. This book has everything: jelly between walls, dopplegangers (one of them is x.x), self-insertion, all-purple preteens, defenestration, exasperated exes, post-it notes above the bed, fraternal-twin apartments, fear of ceiling fans, detectable chins, and Schrodinger's toy boxes metaphorical to parental love (?). I kind of maybe sometimes enjoyed it, but I have to admit the Asian American stereotype eluded me most of the time. Maybe I'm not smart enough for this book, or maybe the "it" of the novel is just not meant to be captured. Either way, I read this book. It was a weird one. Matthew Salesses is a strange person.