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A review by piccoline
Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet
5.0
It's hard to describe what makes Millet's novels work so well. She's got clean prose, true, and a good balance of event and internal revelation. She poetically and thematically weaves the human world of her characters with the "natural" world (communicating well why those quotation marks are around natural there earlier in this sentence).
Maybe what I love most is the risks she takes, certain happenings that almost shouldn't work. No, they shouldn't work. Heck, maybe they don't work, but the whole somehow still does. It's easy to be jaded in these times, but she helps me avoid that. She's smart, she's funny, but she also risks and attempts what Wallace urged the "new literary rebels" to do: say something and mean it.
I'm very excited to dig into the third novel in this loose trilogy.
Maybe what I love most is the risks she takes, certain happenings that almost shouldn't work. No, they shouldn't work. Heck, maybe they don't work, but the whole somehow still does. It's easy to be jaded in these times, but she helps me avoid that. She's smart, she's funny, but she also risks and attempts what Wallace urged the "new literary rebels" to do: say something and mean it.
I'm very excited to dig into the third novel in this loose trilogy.