A review by underthejunipertree
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book only made sense to me at night. For whatever reason, when I read it in the daytime, the words wouldn’t click into place, like I was reading fuzzy words behind the glass. And then the moon would come out, and I’d pick up the book to read something before bedtime, and the book would come into focus and flow, like it did the night before. 
 

The book asks more questions than it answers— but if you can make peace with this, it’s a verdant read, powered by the muscles of its own prose and instinctual sensibilities in a roiling dreamscape of myth and memory. Plot is not a steady thread, but rather, a sharing of confidences when the moment feels right.