A review by avieherman
Reproduction by Louisa Hall

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Read this book in 2 days over Pesach. Super literary but super fast paced and engaging, was so good. And I realized halfway through that I think the “I” who is narrating it isn’t just a fictional person, but it’s actually semi- or totally-ish autobiographical and the “I” is the real life writer? But some of it is fiction? And that’s what they meant by “genre-defying”? I don’t know, it was spectacular. Some of the writing kind of reminded me of Wintering book, except it was actually really good and it totally met all the expectations it set and was everything it promised to be. It‘s one and only fault was being too short. Part of what was fascinating is that it didn’t grapple at all with motherhood, as in caring for and raising her baby, that seemed besides the point, it was the childbearing, the reproduction almost alone that it dealt with and that was so interesting.