A review by octavia_cade
Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy

dark medium-paced

4.0

This is weird but fascinating! It's almost little interconnected pieces of prose poetry or short stories, making up this novella of alienation and archetype that ends in a horrible zoo conflagration. Small character sketches of disconnected people, of migrants and workers and - honestly - people who have lost the plot or fallen away from society in one way or another. I was all for giving it five stars for most of the book, but I do think that the storyline of the Banker (awful woman) fell over itself at the end. It became a bit too obvious, as if this was the place where the author decided to hammer the theme into readers' heads. Overdone, I think, is the right word for it.

But still, fascinating. Back to the library this goes, and it goes as well on my list of books to get my own copy of.