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A review by mattdube
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
4.0
This was a really solid novel in what this morning I'm deciding should be called the "spiritual rejuvenation" genre. The basic premise is narrator Hans is stranded in NYC after 9/11, sans wife and baby, and needs to sort it out. He's helped in this by a weird Caribbean with big dreams and licit schemes.
It's a crackling good read, really, bouncing back and forth as it does between NYC, The Hague, and London, and as a bonus, Hans lives in the Dakota, so there's lots of detail about that. Not sure if those details left me satisfied or more eager to spend time there, but it was very cool.
A seemingly adult novel, by which I mean it's a little subtle, and a little ambiguous in the way it ends. Not a bristling page turner, but a thoughtful middle brow story that I found satisfying after a run of books that I found not so hot.
It's a crackling good read, really, bouncing back and forth as it does between NYC, The Hague, and London, and as a bonus, Hans lives in the Dakota, so there's lots of detail about that. Not sure if those details left me satisfied or more eager to spend time there, but it was very cool.
A seemingly adult novel, by which I mean it's a little subtle, and a little ambiguous in the way it ends. Not a bristling page turner, but a thoughtful middle brow story that I found satisfying after a run of books that I found not so hot.