A review by wtb_michael
Monsters: a reckoning by Alison Croggon

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

2.75

I was a bit frustrated by Monsters - Croggon is incredibly smart and well read and bravely examines her privileges and blindspots in an attempt to understand the failed relationship she has with her sister. This underlying problem remained weirdly hard to grasp for me - I could never quite understand what their issues were and was mostly unconvinced by the attempts to excavate them. The more abstracted sections, dealing with the bigger picture impacts of colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism had some really excellent moments (if occasionally bogging down in detail).