A review by seriousniki
There Is No Year by Blake Butler

4.0

5 stars for commitment to style. Minus a star for frustration in how this slogs on and on and on. Some wonderings: is if about futility of surviving something just to die later on? Or the frustration of that? The end definitely points more directly to how life and the world goes on after one of us ants die. I also had a thought that a lot of the book could be that chemical dump the brain does as we die from the son’s point of view. I’ve read somewhere that our perception of time can be processed differently during that dump, letting a lot more thought happen in the period between our body dying and our brain shutting down completely. All in all, fever dream is the best way to describe the scenes in this book. It is both fun and frustrating to think of what the “point” this book makes could be