A review by jpolino
From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus

3.0

I really wanted this book to be everything. From the reviews I read, to the anticipation for the film with Marion Cotillard, I was sure that I'd fall in love with this book. And I did to an extent. But all in all, it was meh. There was so much left to be desired from this. It felt like the treatment for a novel that could be exactly what I wanted it to be, what I want every novel to be, it just hasn't been fully fleshed out yet. The parts of the novel that have been fleshed out, are glorious. The insights are beautiful, the prose is beautiful. But the woman this novella is a portrait of feels confused and skin deep.

I finished and immediately gave it to a colleague to read so that I could discuss my confused feelings. It might just be that I read it in the wrong settling and have to return to it.