A review by frogwithlittlehammer
How to Be Both by Ali Smith

emotional mysterious reflective

4.75

More like How To Transcend the Novel!!!!!! I am always awed when writers are able to do something I’ve never read before on the page (and slay bc usually it’s a woman 🧎🏻‍♀️). On top of creating a literary fresco that tethers two different lifelines across oceans and eras and specters, I realized upon reading reviews that the order of the novellas changes with every copy of the book. Francesco’s part appeared first for me and I don’t know what would have been preferred but how magical that that order was deigned to me. I will have to read more of Ali Smith in the future.